COVID-19 can live on the surface of objects for hours to days.
The objects you buy in a supermarket have been handled by one or more people: the shelf stocker for sure, and probably other shoppers.
At home, keep the kitchen sink (or a container) full of cold water. Add a cap full of Dettol. Every item that comes through your front door should either go into that water for a short time, or be wiped down with disinfectant if that isn’t possible. Personally, I don’t rinse it off again.
Bought myself a pair of cotton gloves. I tend to put hand sanitizer on gloves on and spray gloves with disinfectant. And keep them round the shops every bit helps I hope.
I’m no expert on protective gloves, but if viruses can happily travel through cotton face masks, I’ll bet they can do the same with cotton gloves. You would probably be be better off with rubber washing-up gloves.
But it certainly wouldn’t help if after arriving home you then touch your purchases and put them all over your kitchen work surfaces.
diluted bleach is as good as disinfectant if you can't get it!
Thank you so much for the advice. Have a good night and take care of yourself 😊 Bernadette xx
You’re welcome. I‘m so sorry that I needed to give it.
Don't be sorry it's very good advice.😄 Bernadette xxxx
I don't like the sound of that, it being to live for days on surfaces. Can you link to the article please? Thank you.
edition.cnn.com/2020/02/17/...
Or any of a thousand other articles.
thanks/ its getting a bit rediculous, I have been picking up my post with a grabber and leaving it unopened for 2 days, in case the postman was infected and coughed or sneezed on it when handling, and previously said can't get from packages.
Can from money so makes sense can from post deliveries too.
Money, postal deliveries, cornflakes, tins, elevator buttons, cat fur, café tables, stair railings. This is Armageddon for anyone with an anxiety disorder. I’m so sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but we must do this.
Our local coop asking people if possible to.pay by card.
Doctor said this am, they are pretty sure that on metal + hard plastic 3 days, I wipe down my shopping with a antibacterial wipe. Cardboard apparently it survives on for a shorter time, so I wipe down, open parcel quickly, remove items and then wash hands again. As I am housebound every thing comes by delivery, so just wipe/wash/wipe/wash and hope. I try to remember the regime used in hospital, when changing the bandage on a patient with an open wound, and pretty much follow that.
And letters that come through through the door pick em up with tongs n spray em. Spray door handles too
DO YOU NEED TO WASH YOUR GROCERIES WHEN YOU GET HOME?
Ben Chapman, a professor and food safety expert at N.C. State University, says that washing or cleaning our groceries when we return home from a store really isn’t necessary, since food and food packaging has not been identified as a risk factor, according to available research.
“I don’t think right now that washing or trying to sanitize a cereal box is an effective way to stop the pathway of the transmission of COVID-19,” Chapman told The News & Observer on Tuesday.
The first and last defense, he says, is hand-washing and hand-sanitizing.
“When I grab my cereal box and fill my bowl and put the box away, I wash my hands,” he said.
And as far as washing fruits and vegetables before consuming, that’s something that has always been recommended, he said.
Even so, if people feel better cleaning their groceries when they get home, it’s fine to do it.
“It’s not gonna hurt, especially in this time of anxiety,” he said. “If it makes someone feel better to wash them, they they should do that.”
The real shopping risk?
“Being around people who are experiencing symptoms. That’s Number 1 at the top with a bullet,” Chapman said.
The advice from the WHO is to clean surfaces because it CAN be passed through surfaces.
Being around people who show symptoms is a ANOTHER risk, and a bigger one.
Governments and health-services across the world, and the WHO, are currently imploring people to take responsibility for their own situation and to do everything in their own power to ensure that they stay out of hospital.
Advice on web pages becomes out of date very quickly.
Thank you for the advice, much appreciated x
If you have a steam cleaner this will probably do a good job too(?)
Ha ha, probably, but good luck with the food staying fresh.
Good suggestion. Thank you! 👍😊
Soap is the best disi nfectant for this virus. I agree about the shopping so i washed mine in soapy wzter and left to drain. But mushrooms in tray covered with cling film as usual were not successful ---damp soggy mushrooms. What about newspapers . Medical officer on radio today had no answer. , except wash your hands after reading so no reading over breakfast. Nothing is completely safe. just hope for the best.
This virus apparently has a waxy coat which protects it from anti bacterial decontamination . It needs soap or alcohol to inactivate it. Vodka isnt strong enough it needs 60/ 65% alcohol . It becomes im prac tical / impossible !
please ask 2 greys.
Ordinary soap is not a disinfectant. Washing up liquid has no disinfectant qualities. We are told that not even 40% proof vodka will not effectively kill this virus.
Soap is simply good at dislodging germs from objects, including your skin. It does not kill germs. At all.
When you wash with soap intending to wash off the virus, the plug hole must be open. You are not killing it. You are washing it away. Washing a virus into a sink full of water and washing up liquid will simply spread the virus to every other thing you put into that water.
The way soap acts breaks down the surface cells of the virus as are of a similar makeup Its not just recommended to dislodge dirt or disinfect it kills the virus
This is from government and other responsible websites
Not what I’ve read anywhere.
Ok. Maybe you are right on that point. Thanks.
Ok stay safe I only made a comment to keep you using soap so it’s lipids killed virus
There s a lot of things said and written about this virus . Until work is done on it scientifically then we do not actually know . We have to rely on the science that we do know.
Yes indeed.
Thank you for letting me to your group.
My First Shopping Trip
Who could you ask about if your entitled to any benifits. 
Big thank you for all your replies on prophylactic azithromycin and Doxi
DNR not sure what to do.
