The coronavirus ‘does not spread easily’ by touching surfaces or objects, said the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), changing its previous guidelines which placed a greater emphasis on this possibility.
The CDC had previously warned that people can get infected “by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes”.
But the new guidelines, issued this week, said “this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads”.
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