Many
questions come in the mind of the people’s with great confusion; Can you get
Covid-19 from touching the door handle and seats in public transport or packed
material/ food articles by parcel. If the parcel is supplied by Corona infected
person.
The WHO released a press issue to clarify fomite transmission risk for catching COVID-19. Fomite means
any non-living things that an infected person comes in contact. “The lab report
suggested that COVID-19 or other respiratory diseases may get transmitted by
touching a surface or object that has the virus on it. If accidentally if you
touch your mouth, nose even eyes the virus may spread.
Does it mean that you can
catch Covid-19 by touching doorknobs and parcel package from an infected person?
The answer to this logic
is yes, Thus, it’s mandatory to clean your hands and additionally avoid face
touch or eye contact. It’s not the time to get panic! We are thinking nowadays more of
corona so we are in fear. Actually speaking normal flu, and other fomite
infections also spread by the same mode of transmission.
Dr. P. Raghu Ram,
President of The Association of Surgeons of India says that material you
purchase from outside has to be considered to be potentially infected.
He
further given the instruction that for handling groceries or package materials in
the times of COVID-19 we should follow these rules:
1. Wash hands regularly even after
processing the food articles; not to worry, cooking kills the pathogens.
2. It’s important to discard
the parcel container from groceries in a closed dustbin. Even wash your hand after that discarding process.
3. Even after processing and cooking vegetables wash your hands.
No, any reports are received to date that touching railings and
doorknobs spread the infection as per Erin Bromage, a comparative immunologist and
biology professor at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Still don’t dare
to touch your eyes and face after that activities. Sometimes few idiotic
educated people also misbehave and act like foolish; even they are infected try
to hold your hand and shakes your hand and you rub your eyes — and what’s next …….
Congratulation yes,… … you’re infected. Due to socio-idiopathic reason, you fall
prey to infection. We never dare to stop such a person due to some social morals
and respect for these people. I will talk on this topic some other day. Similarly, if you visit the public place and have a glass of drink, if it is touched by
infected person and you rub your eyes, you’re infected.” Thus, precaution is
better than a cure. The infected person mostly coughs on his hands and the droplets
containing the germs get adhered to and spreads by the article he touches. This is
what we call it as fomite transmission.
Mostly these viruses remain
active for three days on plastic and steel, but as it lands the surface, the
viable count gets disintegrated within hours. Thus the fresh droplet on the surface
is more dangerous than a few days later.
Stay connected… We’ll
discuss this topic in detail as part-2 in the next session.
If any queries please
write to me as a comment.
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