House Cleaning Tips During the Pandemic

​Sanitizing and cleaning the surfaces in your home often touched by people can decrease the chances of contracting a virus. Additionally, it will also keep you from passing it on to someone else. Other than the basic and necessary self-hygiene guidelines, ensuring you have a sanitized home helps more than you think.

Clean and Disinfect
One thing you should know is that disinfecting and cleaning are both very different from each other, defined as follows:

• Disinfecting means killing the pathogens.
• Cleaning is to remove specific contaminants on a surface.
• It would be best if you do both every day as anyone or anything enters or leaves your home.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that everyone does both, even if no one in their home has the virus.

Person-to-person transmission has a high risk rather than surface transmission. However, CDC states that we should often disinfect and clean surfaces that are much exposed to traffic-touch, at least once every day, to maintain safety. 

Target Your High-Touch Surfaces of Your Home
Researchers discovered that the coronavirus can live on surfaces for up to 24 hours, but can extend from 48 to 72 hours on stainless steel and plastic. Therefore, disinfecting and cleaning surfaces often is a significant step that everyone should take, even if you have no plans on going out for the day. Every time people visit or leave your home, there is always a possibility of contamination.

Here are the high-touch surfaces you need to disinfect and clean every day:

• Hard dining chairs (arms, back, and seat)
• Doorknobs
• Faucets and their knobs
• Kitchen counters
• Table surfaces
• Bathroom counters

Should You Disinfect Food?
If you have no reason to, then it is not necessary. As mentioned by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), no known evidence suggests the coronavirus can be transmitted through food packaging or the food itself. You do not have to disinfect food packaging if you do not want to. Observing food safety standards through handwashing before and after eating should be enough.

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