According to the expert of the center of molecular diagnostics “FBIS ëthe Central research Institute Central research Institute of epidemiology” by Mikhail Lebedev, open waters exposed to large amounts of sunlight, which is detrimental to the coronavirus.
Lebedev added that at the moment it is not proved that the coronavirus can spread from drinking water. “In open water, high insolation, which is detrimental to the infection. Basically, the coronavirus is transmitted by airborne droplets. In ponds you can catch a bacterial or parasitic infection, but not the coronavirus,” quotes his words TASS.
the Expert recalled that after the water can be transferred to a number of other infections, for example, can be infected with hepatitis a, parasitic diseases, parasitic infestations.
Previously, scientists from Britain and Poland published a study which reported that when released into the river coronavirus may live for up to 25 days at low temperatures of water.
