Home hygiene expert explains how to keep your house Covid safe | LBC

Home hygiene expert tells LBC the best way to keep your house Covid-safe when you have visitors around.

Over the last few weeks, numerous experts have suggested the greatest threat of Covid transmission is in the home.

LBC's Shelagh Fogarty spoke to Professor Sally Bloomfield - Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and an expert on home hygiene research.

Professor Bloomfield told LBC she felt that people were taking home hygiene seriously during the coronavirus crisis she said people "want to know how they can make their home Covid-proof."

"The truth of the matter is actually the virus hates homes, it's people that it likes," she added.

The professor told LBC that the virus can only function inside living human cells.

She said the main mission for the virus was finding another person to infect.

When it comes to cleaning surfaces the professor told Shelagh that "the surfaces that it loves are the surfaces that everybody touches."

She said if listeners were going to focus their hygiene and be effective in preventing the spread of Covid they should focus on often touched surfaces and "your hands themselves."

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[BraddersH]

This is why more and more people are tuning into TalkRADIO

[void]

I always keep my home free from Covid by turning the TV off .

[janbrian]

I’ve always made sure everyone has their own towels. My hubby and I have different coloured ones and my visitors have their own too. I also have a three times showered/used and in the wash policy too. I’ve used individual wipes too to clean and try and get the biodegradable ones if I can. We have two bathrooms so I have one and hubby the other, obvs, and he is house trained! Been married 50+ years 😂😂. Start how you mean to go on! 🥴🤗 Dishcloths are white cotton and are put in bleach or Milton most days. Have done all this for years. Makes for an easy life and works for us! 🤷‍♀️

[adamsimmons]

Where’s Kym and Aggie when you need them? 🤔

[andrewgrimshaw]

They really are short of something to talk about.

[Hitngan]

This makes me in listening to it. 2 mins in I have to switch off.

[m.p.]

I'm still disinfecting my groceries as well.

[myrescuecats]

LBC are running out of ideas.
We have had six months of this I’m
Sure we all know how to wash our hands by now..🤣

[paulwood]

My wife and I use rubber gloves, those that you use for washing up dishes to open the mail and packages the postman brings to our house. None knows for sure how many people have touched these things on the way to your home. I don't discuss my thoughts with nonbelievers so don't bother me.

[jamcho]

This is a great idea to educate people how to ensure covid 19 house security

[JennySimon]

Men, if u are out and about, wash your hands BEFORE you go to the bathroom and touch your mucus member.

[jeffreygoggin]

What a load of bull sh?? Shut the door on your way your