Get from coronavirus from this common thing is "unlikely", say doctors
A new study of South Korea reveals what you should worry less.
You probably ordereda lotMore than your online necessities than ever before, which means one thing: more packages at your front door. In the middle of Coronavirus, these carton boxes of the goods have been worrying. After all, a study published in theNew England Journal of MedicinefoundCovid-19 can live on the cardboard for 24 hours maximum. But if you are worried about contracting the coronavirus ofPackage deliveries, Get ready to sigh with relief. South Korea's research suggests thatGet COVID-19 packages is in fact unlikely, Reuters reports.
The issue occurred when a coronavirus epidemic hit a delivery warehouse outside Seoul for online Coupang Retail Giant Coupang. Nearly 120 cases of COVID-19 have been linked to the logistics center that manages, traffic and possibly shipped packages to online customers. Korea and Prevention Disease Control Centers reviewed the epidemic to determine whether packet processing was responsible for CVIV-19 transmission. And the results were good news for anyone is afraid to touch their latest delivery from Amazon. Just put, as a Minister of Health,Kim gang-lip Revealed in a briefing ", there was no precedent for global transmission so far delivered packages."
These results are compatible with a recent advice from US disease and prevention centers (CDC), which specify that theThe biggest risk of transmission Is not from the touch of common materials, but rather of the possible inhalation of the aerosolized droplets expelled by others nearby.
"I do not think we need to be completely obsessed withpackages that enter into, "Anthony Fauci, MD, theHead of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseasessaid in March. "But people say," Should Iparcel of a grocery store that says "made in China"? I will not worry about that. This is not the problem. "
Yes, we can technically contract the coronavirus by touching something that is contaminated - like a package - but the risk is significantly lower than that-to-person. And for more where you should avoid in the middle of coronavirus, here isThe 7 most dangerous spots you can catch coronavirus.
