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Touch Points

With an increased awareness of the novel 2019 coronavirus, we are now more careful when it comes to touch points. We regularly wash our hands with soap and water as these are the carriers of viruses to our bodies when we touch our face particularly our lips, nose and eyes. This slogan is true -- Clean hands make the world go round. Wearing face / surgical masks not only helps filter the air we breathe in as they say that the 2019-nCorV is airborne.  The masks also help avoid direct contact of hands with other parts of the face particularly mouth and nose. Outdoor, many of us carry our hand sanitizers and/or wet towels, and a little sprayer with 70% isopropyl alcohol solution / antiseptic disinfectant. In a hospital in Wuhan, China, the zero ground of deadly 2019-nCorV, there is a robot bringing food rations to each room where the patients are being treated. This is to reduce the exposure of healthcare practitioners to infected patients. I just wonder why they did not