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Hand Sanitizer: Helping People Stay Safe During The COVID-19 Pandemic

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  Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, hand sanitizers have been selling like hotcakes around the world. The massive uptick in its demand has soared. Due to the sudden spike in demand even now, the supermarkets and pharmacies have also started limiting the sales of this sought-after product.    According to the healthcare officials of WHO, washing your hands with soap and water constantly, after a time being, is the best means to keep your hands protected from this virus. Washing hands with soap and water may not be possible when a person is one the move and, whenever the sink is not near, so at that time, it would be ideal to use and rely on hand sanitizers as an effective disinfectant.    There are different types of hand sanitizers, sanitizing gels foams, and wipes available that work as protective masks to shield against this epidemiological novel coronavirus. Using these cleaning solutions regularly is mentioned to be the ideal way to ensu...

Cluster of COVID-19 Cases Impacting Economy & Humankind

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      Humans have never been afflicted by any of the diseases transmitted by animals in history ever. From  the 1918 influenza pandemic in the United States  to the  2014–2016 Ebola virus outbreak that occurred in West Africa , the current COVID-19 outbreak is the latest that has taken place in recent years. This coronavirus pandemic is considered as one of the biggest global health calamity faced by the humankind. The US is known to be the first few countries to report this infection, since it has been outbreak in December 2019, in Wuhan. According to the sources, a health emergency was declared on 21st January 2020 in the US. Presently, there are more and more nCoV cases over there.   The US reported nearly  44,957 new cases  on Wednesday, 19th August 2020   As of August 19, 2020, over  5.70 million confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19)  had been reported by the World Health Organization (WHO) for the United Sta...

Fight Against Novel COVID-19 With Hand Sanitizers In Combating infection

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        The epidemiological Corona Virus (also commonly known as COVID – 19), is all over the news and making all the headlines, causing havoc all around the world from a quite long now. It has poised the worst ever crisis ever faced by humanity till the date. As the months are rolling and passing, many top scientists, medical fraternity, and researchers have joined their hands to better study and understand about this SARS-CoV-2 virus. It’s been so many months, and sadly, till the date, there has been no proven and effective cure for the virus. However, the healthcare infrastructure officials have come up with a few of things that have significantly contributed towards reducing the transmission and fatality rate. One among them is to wash your hands with water and soap, after a certain time being. But, if those are not accessible, using benzalkonium chloride hand sanitizer in its place is indeed the follow-up thing to make your hands free of unwanted germs. ...