Yeah, dry and cool preserve it nearly danged forever.
IIRC I read that’s why HK had a worse deal with SARS than Malaysia/Indonesia/etc. HK used a/c much more extensively and the virus flourished indoors that way. Fomites...
https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/DrLiWenliang?src=hashtag_click
No idea if this is true, but a tweet translated says Dr. Wenliang’s wife (and unborn child) has died- from virus.
Will look for confirmation.