China News Service, January 22. The State Council's Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism held a press conference on the 22nd to introduce the relevant situation of epidemic prevention and control during the festival.

At the meeting, He Qinghua, a first-level inspector of the National Health Commission's Bureau of Disease Control and Prevention, pointed out that existing research has shown that the virus discharged by the new crown virus infected person can contaminate the surface of the article, and the virus will not multiply on the surface of the article. Low temperature, humidity, airtightness and virus concentration High conditions may prolong the time the virus can survive on surfaces.

The new coronavirus is sensitive to disinfectants, and commonly used disinfectants can quickly inactivate the new coronavirus.

At the same time, he emphasized that human infection caused by contaminated items is not the main transmission route of the new coronavirus, but this possibility is not ruled out.