Dr Hilary Jones has urged Brits to ignore a 'dangerous' theory about how Covid-19 can spread.
The health expert was talking to Lorraine Kelly when asked about whether the virus can actually spread on surfaces.
Lorraine said: "Something that happened over the weekend as well, saying that the chances are you may not catch coronavirus from hard surfaces or surfaces of whatever it may be. What do you think?"
Dr Hilary replied: "This is interesting, a paper from a US microbiologist saying 'look I've looked at a meta analysis, I've looked at lots of lab studies over the years looking at how viruses survive on door handles, light switches. Actually what the lab shows is that these viruses aren't very viable at all in the real world'.
"Industries will be really interested in this because hotels and bars and restaurants have spent £7 billion trying to deep clean everything.
"I think the report is really dangerous that we don't need to worry and it's predominantly a respiratory virus.
"We know it is. We know that.
"But you can still pick up the virus from people who have touched their noses, faces or masks and they've gone to the loo touched this handle, that handle and whatever.
"The virus will be there, if they've got Covid-19 and it can be passed on to someone else if they then touch their face.
"I think we should ignore that headline, carry on hand washing, carry on wearing masks.
"It's still the hand, face, space message that's still very important."
Lorraine continues weekdays on ITV at 9am.
