To prevent coronavirus don’t touch your face – but how can you avoid it?

Is there anything we can do to help us give up this habit?

In the fight against the new coronavirus there’s one simple measure we can all take but that to many of us may sound almost impossible – we need to stop touching our faces.

-Stop touching your face to reduce your chances of catching coronavirus, experts say.

-Tactics include wearing woolly gloves and an app that sounds a warning if your hand moves to your face.

-But face-touching is an instinctive response to stress and a hard habit to break.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says we should particularly try to avoid touching the eyes, nose and mouth, which can be an effective way of halting the spread of diseases. Viruses can live for days on surfaces from desktops to door handles, and once on our hands can be transferred into our bodies through these entry points.

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Πηγή: bigthink.com