Posted on by Steven Esler

The Corona Virus outbreak is impacting us all in almost every aspect of our lives.  There is so much fake news and conflicting advice floating about on social media, we have compiled all the important advice and guidance.  From trusted sources like the NHS, Public Health England and The World Health Organisation – we’ll help keep you informed about the correct advice to follow to keep yourself, and your school safe, in these uncertain times.

Cleanliness is a really simple way for us all to help combat this virus. The World Health Organization details that the virus can linger on surfaces, for anywhere between a few hours and several days (depending on environmental conditions). So ensuring we are wiping surfaces before and after lessons is key to helping sanitise your environment, be that phones, computers or door handles. Similarly, as we know, even if a country is in ‘Lockdown’ food stores will still be open for people to get groceries. 

 

In a similar way, we must keep ourselves thoroughly clean and wash or sanitise our hands regularly. Professor Palli Thordarson of the University of New South Wales, in an interview with Bloomberg, suggests that soap molecules destabilise the lipid membrane of the virus, making it weaker and tears it apart from making the virus “inactive and dead”; which is why all governments, health organisations and public bodies are asking us to wash our hands for a minimum of 20 seconds, ensuring to get under the fingernails, between the fingers (not forgetting thumbs) and the backs of our hands.

Hand sanitiser gels are also a really good method of killing the virus on our skin. But people have the tendency to apply the sanitiser incorrectly, forgetting to interlace the fingers and rub the product fully into every part of the hand. So when using sanitiser or showing the children at your school, don’t just put enough on to cover the palms of the hands – apply liberally and be sure to pay attention to the backs of hands, nails and individual fingers and thumbs to make it work to its full potential – for your own safety.

Our site holds everything you will need for helping to keep yourself safe and clean. Our professionally formulated hand washes, soaps, sanitisers, surface cleaners and gels will have stock replenished as often as possible for delivery to your school.