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Reports about Coronavirus Not Surviving Higher Temperature May Not be True: Warns Health Ministry

  • The center said that the myth coronavirus doesn’t survive higher temperatures and may not spread in India during summers was unverified.
  • Luv Aggarwal, a joint secretary with the health ministry said, "All facts about it are still being studied. There are no confirmatory studies." 
  • "It is generally expected that the virus, if it is in higher temperatures, may have difficulty in surviving, but it is not confirmed," he further said. 
  • Mike Ryan from WHO said, "It’s a false hope to say it will disappear like the flu (in the summer) … we can’t make that assumption. And there is no evidence."
  • Let us tell you that the number of Coronavirus cases in India has reached 73 out of which 56 are Indians citizens.
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