“Copper is truly a gift from Mother Nature in that the human race has been using it for over eight millennia.”
The SARS-CoV-2 virus endures for days on plastic or metal but disintegrates soon after landing on copper surfaces.
When researchers reported last month that the novel coronavirus causing the COVID-19 pandemic survives for days on glass and stainless steel but dies within hours after landing on copper, the only thing that surprised Bill Keevil was that the pathogen lasted so long on copper.
Keevil, a microbiology researcher at the University of Southampton (U.K.), has studied the antimicrobial effects of copper for more than two decades. He has watched in his laboratory as the simple metal slew one bad bug after another. Continue reading