FORGET face masks and rubber gloves. The best way to avoid the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is frequent hand washing, according to a medical adviser to the world’s airlines. Masks and gloves do a better job of spreading bugs than stopping them, he said. Gloves are probably even worse, because people put on gloves and then touch everything they would have touched with their hands. And inside the gloves, your hands get hot and sweaty, which is a really good environment for microbes to grow.

Source: New Strait Times February 09, 2020 03:45 UTC