Published 19:36 IST, April 16th 2020
Grocery shopping with gloves on? Keep these things in mind amid COVID-19 spread
Safety tips and important things to keep in mind when you go grocery shopping amid Coronavirus spread. Should you wear gloves during grocery shopping?
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Coronavirus pandemic instilled in people a fear of getting in contact with potentially dely virus that has held world in its clasp. It has been me mandatory to wear a mask outside one's house and many people are seen wearing gloves when y are going out to get essentials, especially groceries.
When it comes to safety and hygiene, gloves are an ded layer on skin and keep one's hands clean by ding an extra layer of protection but can prove to be more dangerous than bare hands if not taken proper care of or not disposed of. So, n question arises, should you wear gloves during grocery shopping? Re on se important tips if you wear gloves while grocery shopping or orwise also, amid Coronavirus spre.
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Should you wear gloves during grocery shopping?
- As mentioned above, gloves act as an extra layer on hands and prevent m from coming in direct contact with dirt, germs, virus, etc. But gloves are not self-cleaning nor do y kill virus. y can transmit germs and viruses same way your hand can. This means that if you touch a contaminated surface and n touch a clean surface after that, it is highly possible that you have transmitted virus from one place to or and have spre virus.
- Gloves are even more harmful than bare hands because of hesive properties of virus differ on different surfaces. It is possible that Coronavirus may here to latex better than it heres to skin.
- Touching your face with gloves on: Wearing gloves reduces habit of handwashing and or using a sanitizer. Since person wearing it gets a false sense of security and y feel that y are safe. This might le to person forgetting to not touch ir face and might transmit virus from gloves to ir face.
- Disposing of gloves: It is of utmost importance to know right way to remove gloves and n dispose of m correctly.
- Steps to remove and dispose of used gloves correctly: You need to pinch glove on one hand from wrist and n pull it over your hands in order to turn it inside out. n keep glove in gloved hand and move your bare hand fingers carefully to top of or glove. It will turn inside out and cover or glove which is balled up. Wash your hand properly after removing gloves.
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19:36 IST, April 16th 2020