Expert Advice: Avoid coronavirus by disinfecting your smartphones in every 90 minutes
| Mar 13, 2020, 13:09 IST
Amid the outbreak of COVID-19, we have seen 73 positive cases of the virus alone in India. Labeled as ‘pandemic’ by the World Health Organisation, the coronavirus has so far killed 4,500 people in the world, within such a short period. In the absence of vaccination, health advisors are currently stressing on the importance of washing hands frequently and sanitising their smartphones every 90 minutes with alcohol-based disinfectant.
According to Ravi Shekhar Jha, head of the department at Fortis Escorts Hospital of Faridabad, the best method to disinfect your Smartphone is to use any regular doctor spirit or alcohol-based hand sanitiser in every 90 minutes.
The need to make sure we are keeping every frequently touched object sanitise can be traced back to a study, published in 2018 by Insurance2Go that revealed how smartphone screens have three times more germs than a toilet seat. The stats from the study also suggest that one out of every 20 phone users was found to clean their mobile phones less than every six months.
Another research from the University of Surrey in the UK also supports the need to keep phones clean. It mentions that the home button on your Smartphone might be harbouring more harmful germs that you can think of!
"Coronavirus and other germs can live on surfaces like glass, metal or plastics and phones are bacteria-ridden. We must sanitise our hands frequently and make sure that our hands are clean all the time," Suranjeet Chatterjee, Senior Consultant in Internal Medicine Department of Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals in New Delhi.
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According to Ravi Shekhar Jha, head of the department at Fortis Escorts Hospital of Faridabad, the best method to disinfect your Smartphone is to use any regular doctor spirit or alcohol-based hand sanitiser in every 90 minutes.
The need to make sure we are keeping every frequently touched object sanitise can be traced back to a study, published in 2018 by Insurance2Go that revealed how smartphone screens have three times more germs than a toilet seat. The stats from the study also suggest that one out of every 20 phone users was found to clean their mobile phones less than every six months.
Another research from the University of Surrey in the UK also supports the need to keep phones clean. It mentions that the home button on your Smartphone might be harbouring more harmful germs that you can think of!
"Coronavirus and other germs can live on surfaces like glass, metal or plastics and phones are bacteria-ridden. We must sanitise our hands frequently and make sure that our hands are clean all the time," Suranjeet Chatterjee, Senior Consultant in Internal Medicine Department of Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals in New Delhi.
Photo credit: Google