Doc Willie Ong corrects wrong beliefs about coronavirus.
CORONAVIRUS – Medical expert Doc Willie Ong discusses and debunks some famous beliefs about coronavirus amid alarming outbreak.
nCoV outbeak is surely giving scare worldwide as it spreads quickly from one person to another. Its common symptoms include coughing, fever, fatigue, and soreness.
Check out some important things to note as clarified by Doc Willie Ong:
- Use alcohol all the time because viruses starts with the hands. Also, practice regular hand washing. nCoV lives in object for 8 to 24 hours but eventually dies if exposed to sun in one to two hours.
- Alcoholic drinks or drinking of any of this kind is not a solution to kill the virus. Drinking such is actually dangerous to overall health.
- Transferring of virus through money is possible but the best to handle it to wash your hands and apply alcohol right away.
- Washing of alcohol in the entire face is not advisable as it can result to blindness.
- Using gloves and goggles is for doctors but if a normal person does this, it will only collect more virus and bacteria which is why using alcohol is most recommended.
- nCoV, theoretically, can enter through the eyes because of the opening. But normally, it enters through the mouth and nose coming from our hands.
- Drinking of water with garlic to kill the virus is fake news.
- The use of mask is to prevent from touching our face through our hands which is one way to spread the virus. But the correct way to use it is the colored one on the outside and can only be use for one day. This is not washable.
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