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Companies closing their doors around the world, countless people are turning to online retailers for any personal grocery items delivered directly to their door. And while this approach facilitates the residence of thesocial distancing RulesSome concerns remain about the potential health risk all that mail can wear.

While falling sick of your mail is not a forgotten conclusion, it's a totally valid concern - since recent research indicates thatCoronavirus can live Up to three days out of plastic and cardboard 24 hours. Also, you never know who has managed your mail or when they did.

"Even if a carrier company like Amazon or USPS or UPS would exceed all employees every day, there is no guarantee they would not be asymptomatic carriers of the disease," saysTaylor GraberMD, ownerASAP IVS.

Which leads us to the urgent question: How can I clean up the mail and keepmy home security?

According to Graber, the answer is relatively simple. First, it suggests opening packages and other mail in an area of ​​your home that can be easily wiped with antibacterial cleaner - a feed table in your basement or something similar, for example. Assign half of the surface for the objects 'dirty' and half to "clean".

Place a newly received packaging on the "dirty" side and open gloves. (If you do not have gloves available Graber recommendswash one's hands Before and immediately after.) Remove the content and any outer packaging, such as plastic film, and place the element or elements on the "clean" side, immediately have all packaging materials. Finally, remove your gloves.

"This way, I hope that the deepest part of the package should be the cleanest," says Graber. "The remaining articles of the own section should have minimal contact with outside hands and the risk of transmission should be minimized."

To play extra safe,Valerie Sauda, PhD, director of nurses Director and Assistant ProfessorSchool Nurse of Husson UniversityRecommends washing your hands for 20 seconds once you have completed the steps described above. "That's equivalent to sing the song" Happy Birthday "twice or" Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star "once out loud," she explains.

While this may certainly does not hurt to make a further step to wipe the inside with a package contentsDisinfectant coronavirus EPA approvedThey are unlikely to be a source of transmission for Covid-19 when they reached the door.

"In general, because of the low survival of these coronaviruses on surfaces, it is probably very low risk of spreading of products or packaging shipped over a period of days or weeks at ambient temperatures"CDC said. And for more ways to protect themselves against Covid-19 hereHow experts say you should clean your phone to stop coronavirus propagation.