Scientists have revealed the coronavirus can be spread via shoes, remaining active for as long as three days.
A new study has found coronavirus can be spread through the soles of medics’ shoes. Picture: Josep Lago/AFP“Furthermore, half of the samples from the soles of the ICU medical staff shoes tested positive,” the group wrote in the study, coming to the conclusion “the soles of medical staff shoes might function as carriers”.
Most shoes have a non-porous rubbery sole – a surface on which the virus can last as long as three days, previous research has found. Emergency physician Cwanza Pinckney told the publication the sole of the shoe was the “breeding ground of more bacteria and fungi and viruses than the upper part of the shoe”.found the average shoe sole contained some 421,000 bacteria, viruses and parasites.According to Ms Winner, however, shoes are one of the least likely ways of contracting the virus.
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