You’re not disinfecting your cell phone when you get home
According to health experts, mobile phones can be coronavirus carriers, which makes them high-risk items. That’s because you take your phone with you wherever you go and put it on all sorts of potentially contaminated surfaces. If you’re not disinfecting it the minute you get home, chances are you’re cross-contaminating your space.
“We touch the tuna can in the store, and then the phone, the door on the milk case, and then our phone,” explains public health expert Carol Winner, MPH, MSE, founder of Give Space. “All it takes, potentially, is a touch of not just the phone, but pretty much any surface in the house where we have set the phone”. To stay on the safe side, Winner recommends sanitizing your cell phone right away, or, better yet, leaving it in your bag while you do your errands.
You’re bringing your mail inside the house
Coronavirus can live on paper or cardboard for only a few minutes but if you take your mail immediately after the mailman left it in your box, odds are you could be bringing the virus inside your home without even realizing it.
To make sure you cross-contaminate your space, Winner recommends not bringing any non-essential mail into your living space and leaving it somewhere else, like a garage, for a day or two. According to health experts, you’ll never bring these 10 things in your home again, after the coronavirus pandemic is over.
