Published 15:40 IST, April 6th 2020

Coronavirus: NHS doctor reveals why you shouldn't wear gloves through TikTok video

An NHS doctor used TikTok to raise awareness around the novel coronavirus and revealed why gloves are not useful to protect yourself from the pandemic.

Reported by: Kunal Gaurav
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An NHS doctor used TikTok to raise awareness around vel coronavirus and revealed why gloves are t useful to protect yourself from pandemic. Dr Karan Ragarajan, an NHS surgeon, took to TikTok to create a video to show how wearing gloves could furr jeopardize fight against COVID-19.

In video, Dr Rangarajan urged t to wear gloves while going out saying gloves accumulate germs because you are t washing your hands.

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"You’ve got your gloves, you’re at supermarket, you’re touching things – re you go…germs,” said British doctor.

"You keep touching more things throughout same day with se same gloves, germs everywhere. You’re accumulating germs,” he added.

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Rangarajan reminded that a person will be touching steering wheel with same pair of gloves spreading germs all over and one might touch his/her face accidentally transferring germs to body. He also warned that someone might actually be glove itself while changing it. Rangarajan urged everyone to just wash ir hands frequently and stay safe.

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video has garnered more than 360,000 views and 22,000 likes on TikTok so far. Dr Rangarajan frequently posts videos related to coronavirus and has more than 85k followers on video-sharing app.

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Britain has been witnessing a huge spike in coronavirus cases and has become of worst-hit countries around world with over 47,000 cases of coronavirus and 4,934 deaths due to infection. COVID-19 outbreak has spiralled out in Britain and NHS workers are bearing brunt of resource crunch.

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15:40 IST, April 6th 2020