Study: Your shoes or slippers can carry the coronavirus
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 13-04-2020
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The primary advice various virologists and experts are suggesting is to keep a single pair of shoes exclusively to wear and use outside of your home, which you then either leave outside and disinfect as required. Dr Lisa Cross - a virologist - said on Channel 4’s Coronavirus: How Clean Is Your House that the virus can survive on materials such as the rubber soles of shoes for anywhere from "three to five days". She recommended "just only having one pair of shoes to go in and out".
Disinfecting slippers or shoes by either wiping them or washing them (depending on the material) is advised and so is keeping the 'outside' footwear in the same secluded spot every day. Washing clothes and cleaning footwear, in addition to hand sanitisation, wearing masks and gloves (and discarding them properly) and social distancing, can help reduce risks of contracting COVID-19.
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