Given the WHO and the US CDC’s hand-washing guidelines are
somewhat “water-intensive”, is clean drinking water vital in stopping the
spread of COVID 19?
By: Ringo Bones
Given that you have to sing Happy Birthday twice while
washing your hands with soap and water – the now recommended length of time
required to lower one’s chances of catching COVID 19 to an absolute minimum,
the global pandemic that have paused modern life raised concern whenever when
it will hit places where clean drinking water is not widely available. The
world’s various health organizations have waited in trepidation on how COVID 19
might spread in the poorer parts of Africa and other parts of the world lacking
in readily available clean water, not just for drinking, but for washing one’s
hands. Add to that a lack of personal protective equipment to the medical doctors
and related health workers in these places, it could be the proverbial “perfect
storm” when it comes to the spreading of the COVID 19 virus.
Thankfully, at the moment, COVID 19 spread in parts of the
world where clean drinking water is a rarity were not as bad as that of the
spread of the virus in the world’s major metropolitan areas during the spring
of 2020. Maybe it might just be due to sheer luck that the clean water deprived
parts of the world has not become a corona-virus hotspot for now at least. But
the medical charities currently operating in these places are bolstering local
clean drinking water supplies in order to nip an emerging COVID 19 infection in
the bud.
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