New research from
Singapore published Wednesday showed that patients with the novel coronavirus extensively contaminate their bedrooms and bathrooms, underscoring the need to routinely clean high-touch surfaces, basins and toilet bowls. The virus was however killed by twice-a-day cleaning of surfaces and daily cleaning of floors with a commonly used disinfectant -- suggesting that current decontamination measures are sufficient as long as people adhere to them. The research letter was published in the Journal of the
American Medical Association (JAMA) and comes after cases in
China where the pathogen spread extensively through hospitals, infecting dozens of health care workers and other patients.