Shopping can be stressful in a pandemic situation like today.
Because the move outside the home, including for shopping, makes us at risk for contracting the virus.
In addition, COVID-19 can also survive on the surface of objects, including groceries that we buy.
The corona virus can survive on the surface of our groceries and cause cross contamination.
Risk of virus contamination from groceries
scientists have not been able to ascertain whether food packaging can also pose a risk of Covid-19.
Not only doing physical distancing, the World Health Organization (WHO) also recommends that we do not touch the face area after handling objects in public places.
The reason, these objects can contain viruses and enter our bodies through the eyes, nose and mouth.
New England Journal of Medicine proves, corona virus can live on the surface of plastic and steel objects for up to 72 hours.
The virus can also survive on the surface of objects made of cardboard or cardboard for up to 24 hours.
Therefore, it is recommended that we be careful of all surfaces of objects in public places, including where we used to shop.
"When shopping, we should only hold the things we want to buy, clean our shopping baskets with disinfectant wipes, and wash hands when after shopping,"
Even if we shop through the delivery service or use the online shopping feature, the risk of virus contamination can still occur.
Clean up groceries
Whether we shop directly or use online shopping services, we still have to be careful to prevent infection.
It is highly recommended that we wash our hands after unpacking and storing our groceries.
In order to ensure the cleanliness of the groceries that we buy is guaranteed, we must also clean the packaging of every groceries we buy.
"In addition to cleaning every package, we also have to throw away the disposable packaging. This method is very important to reduce the chance of infection,"
When finished, it is recommended that we wash the table or surface that we use to place our groceries.
If we do not have much time to clean our groceries, leave the groceries in the garage or terrace at least 72 hours.
to make the virus inactive. We can also discard packaging and move our groceries to cleaner containers,
For groceries in the form of vegetables and fruit, we can wash it with soap and running water for 20 seconds.
make sure we clean the vegetables and fruit that we rinse until there is no soap left.
This is very important so that the soap is not swallowed when we consume it.
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