What can we do?

How can we minimize the chance of catching Corona Virus with Baby Sees Michele Roberts and Laura Foster have some ideas for us.

Number one.

Wash your hands more more.

You wash your hands, the less likely you are to spread the virus to other people.

So if you've been out in a public place on the bass or a train, wash your hands as soon as you can afterwards and when you're done, turn the tap off using a tissue and put it in the bin.

Antibacterial gels do work that's open.

Water is best number to avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth, because that's the way the virus could get into your body.

You can still touch your face, but only if you've washed your hands before.

Number three.

Catching your coughs and Sneezes.

Experts think Corona virus is spread by droplets that come out of your nose and mouth, so when you sneeze or cough, catch them with disposable tissues.

Then Bennett Moshe hands disposable tissues a better than handkerchiefs that you carry around with you all the time.

If you don't have a tissue, Sneeze or cough into the crook of your elbow.

Don't touch things in your hands if you don't have to, the less you touch things like surfaces, handrails, lift buttons, the less likely you are to catch the virus or indeed spread.

Well, because it is so important.

It was a bit quick there.

I thought we're going to show you howto wash your hands properly, Tulip.

You're gonna time us.

Time is of the essence, Jake.

Take it away.

Gonna roll my sleeves up so that I can make sure that I get all of my hands and my wrists.

I'm gonna demonstrate with some alcohol gel, but the principles are the same.

So what we're trying to do is cover as much of our hands and wrists as possible, whether it's soap and water, whether it's alcohol jail.

So I'm gonna put a good amount on.

I'm gonna start by a lot more than I would have thought.

Loads.

Okay, right now.

Don't.

I did.

Over Thio.

Every pumps different, so I'm gonna rub it over and then back in my hands So my fingers were together and then the other side, and then, like this fingers together and then like this.

So I'm trying to cover hold on my fingers underneath jewelry and things as well.

Yeah, And then people forget the thumb, stick out.

So go on your thumbs.

And then fingertips were still going to let you just past 20 seconds there.

Sorry.

It's cause I'm talking.

And then don't forget your wrists.

Finally.

So 20 seconds the time.

Because that felt like a long time.

You can take a long as you want, but a little tournament at minimum, 20 seconds to get good coverage.

So, Jake, I've touched so many surfaces today from leaving home to being here.

How often should I be washing my hands?

So a CZ, often as you can, really within reason on dhe.

Certainly if you've touched lots of surfaces.

So if you've seen out and about, it's good to have some alcohol gel with you if you have but good old soap and water is good enough.

Certainly before eating on dhe.

If you think you need to touch your face, try and wash your hands before you touch your face.

I mean, shops are selling out of this.

What should we be looking for If we see it, what kind of percentages of alcohol should be an hour sanitizer.

So different types of hand sanitizer.

Most contain alcohol.

You're looking for a minimum of 60%.

Most will contain 70% alcohol or higher, so that will kill the corner that will Brett.

Well, let's take another question.

And this one comes from Claire in Singapore.

She has a toddler, and she says, I see a lot of people wearing masks and using sanitizer.

How effective are these?

And stopping the spread of the virus and how at risk are our Children?

So we have a mask here, Jake any good?

So this is what we call the surgical mask.

It's quite a simple, mass, massive, really important for health care workers.

But if you're a member of the general public, the evidence isn't great to show that they're going to protect you.

That's because when we use them, if we work in the hospital, we use them for a short period of time, were trained in the use on dhe.

We get rid of them in a safe way.

If you just have one of these on all day, you're probably trying to eat and drink wearing it.

I've seen people with it won't like that which is ineffective.

Then people will take it off, have something to eat, have contaminated the outside.

If they got virus on their hands, then they're putting it back on the face and potentially exposing themselves.

Just to be clear, your advice is we don't need a mask.

So our advice in England is that we don't recommend people wear masks, too.

Prevent guessing infection.

Sometimes we ask people who've got symptoms to put them on because they will stop some coffe droplets coming out.

And to look to our question from Claire and Singapore.

What about Children?

So there was still a lot of research going on in this area and, in fact, many areas around Corona virus.

But it does seem, from some early studies, a study that involved around 44,000 people who got the Corona virus in China that the risk to Children does seem to be a little bit lower.

About 1% of Children and young people so under twenties were infected with this Corona virus, so it's a similar things for them.

Of course, you need to make sure that they're washing their hands regularly, that they're staying clean and they're not touching lots of surfaces.

Difficult with difficult kids.

But just make sure, you know, and it's not just the hand sanitizer.

Use open water and row, Row your boat.

Row, row, row your boat.

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That's how you know the 22nd because it's obviously hard to figure that out when you absolutely okay, Thanks both.

Well, there is a lot off damaging misinformation out there.

We've all seen it.

It's contributing to the panic, the sense of fear that we have.

So let's join Roz now on where you should be getting your information from Ross, their seat.

Thank you very much indeed.

Now, ever since this new Corona virus was identified in December, we've bean dealing what's with what's being called a new viral threat, not the virus itself, but misinformation, by which I mean reports and advice that air either incorrect, misleading or completely false.

For example, one theory that just won't go away is that this virus came from a Chinese lab.

He's The Washington Times in January, reporting that covert 19 could be connected to a Chinese biowarfare program.

Or there's this in February from The New York Post, an opinion piece under the headline Don't by China's story.

The Corona virus may have leaked from a lab, but there is no evidence to back this up.

However, as with a lot of misinformation, there are some grains of truth in there.

This outbreak did originate in Wuhan, in China, and in that city you'll find the Wu Han Institute Well, virology, which is a high security bio lab.

But this is a very big but here's the medical journal The Lancet, documenting how scientists have analysed this virus.

And they've all concluded it came from wildlife and wasn't engineered in a lab.

So if what large is the suspected source?

There's been a huge amount of attention on this live animal and seafood market also in wuv, because one theory is that the virus originated in bats that were being sold there, and it's true that is one possible explanation.

This, though, will not help you understand that it's a video of a woman eating bat soup that went very viral in the last couple of months, with many people blaming this kind of dish for the virus.

Except is this Our school in the South China Morning Post notes that video is three years old and it's not from Wu Han now.

This article, from the sense of a disease control helps us on this issue.

It outlines how this disease could spread from animals to humans that can happen via direct or indirect contact or fire pests, water or food.

So suit may have been involved, but not the one in this video and quite possibly not at all.

Next there's the issue of advice.

Bad advice.

For example, here's a Facebook group telling us if you eat a bowl of boiled garlic that could cure the virus, it can't.

You'll be well aware of lots of people buying these surgical facemasks.

Doctors are telling us they are gonna help you to avoid the virus, and these are just some of hundreds of examples.

I should say there is good advice out there.

You could look at the website for the sense of the disease control.

Also check out the W H O Smith busting page, and of course, there's the BBC news website with an awful lot of verified information about what's happening on what to do.

But there's no doubt, Lucy, that, as the W.

H O director says, We're not just fighting an epidemic, we're fighting an infidel Rose.

Thank you so much, Jake.

And she'll appear very happy to see some of those myths being busted as well.

But I think one of the things many of us are tackling every day, Jake, is whether we should be changing our daily lives and what we do.

I mean, should we be going to the movies, taking our kids to birthday parties?

Should I have given you a hug and a kiss?

Hello or Tulip?

I know quite well should all that stop so ordinarily, I'd say Yes, obviously, but it depends.

Where you are in the world at the moment is to what you should do.

But we should all be thinking about how our lives may need to change, not forever, but for a short period.

So, for example, how's my life changed in the UK at the moment?

I'm not shaking hands with people anymore.

That's my personal choice.

I'm doing an elbow bump or a foot, which I think is a good idea.

It's something easy, Aiken do.

It doesn't offend anybody that I don't shake the hand anymore.

There will be other things if this gets bigger in my own country, going forward about trying to keep a distance from other people, social, social distancing and it'll depends on how big it gets, how many people are infected.

So there are lots of plans to try and work out when that may happen, and then what actions need to be taken.

So it's important to listen to the authorities in your own country and listen to their advice.