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Irish Mirror
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Michelle Cullen

Expert warns Covid can survive for up to a month on frozen foods

A health expert has warned that Covid can remain on frozen foods for up to a month.

Professor Emily Bailey of Campbell University and her colleagues investigated how long Covid can last on frozen meat following outbreaks in Southeast Asia that occurred without any community transmission.

Prof Bailey said her research "suggested that packaged meat products, produced in areas where SARS-CoV-2 was circulating, could have been the source of the virus.

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