COVID-19 can survive on surfaces for days, hours in the air
A new study from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which forms part of the US National Institutes of Health, has discovered that the extremely contagious novel coronavirus COVID-19 can survive in the air and remain infectious for up to three hours, on cardboard surfaces for no more than 24 hours, on copper for 4 hours, and on stainless steel surfaces for about 6 hours.
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NASA said JWST will miss March 2021 launch date
In a presentation to an online meeting of the Space Studies Board of the National Academies, Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA associate administrator for science, said that work on JWST had been going well in months before the pandemic but that the slowdown in work since March made it impossible to keep the mission on its previous schedule.
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