Almost half of mobile phones tested at the height of the pandemic were contaminated with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, bolstering a theory that the devices supercharged the spread of COVID-19.
Bond University conducted a systematic review of 15 studies from 10 countries that examined mobile phones for SARS-CoV-2 contamination in hospital settings between 2019 and 2023. The findings are published in theOf 511 phones, 231 tested positive for the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes COVID-19.Lead researcher Dr.
Dr. Tajouri said that with more than seven billion mobile phones in use worldwide, the devices effectively served as a"third hand.", you cross-contaminate yourself all over again," Dr. Tajouri said. "In an earlier study we did in a hospital pediatric intensive care unit and pediatric emergency ward, we found 11,163 microbes on 26 health care workers' mobile phones, with pathogenic viruses andAuthors of the systematic review recommended enclosed ultraviolet-C light phone sanitizers be installed near hand-washing stations in high-risk environments such as hospitals, restaurants, cruise ships, airports, child and aged-care facilities.
"When they touch then vulnerable patients, they might transmit those viruses to these fragile and immunocompromised individuals."
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