A viral video from an American medical expert who has reached millions of views on YouTube provides solutions • "The problem is with packaging, the virus does not survive for long on the food itself"

Even these days of closure and staying at home, we go shopping for writers. We keep ordering fast food at home and buying medicine, simply because we have no choice. Here the question arises as to how we will purify our shopping in such a way that if we touch a sick person with the Corona virus, we will not infect it ourselves and infect the rest of the family.

Shoppers emptying shelves at the Rami Levi branches due to the corona // Photo: Moshe Ben Simhon

This question is serious in cardboard, plastic or glass packaging because it turns out that the corona virus sometimes survives for several days on these surfaces. This question was asked by American medical expert Dr. Jeffrey Vanoigan, who shared on the YouTube 13-minute video that has become very viral, with over 12 million views, explaining how to treat the various products so that we do not enter the home Our virus is the result of shopping for medicines or other products, as well as how products we ordered from fast food restaurants should be treated so that we do not get infected by the courier or one of the employees.

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First, Dr. Vannigan notes that "the products we buy and bring home will initially store in one particular place that people do not touch. Because of the survival of the Corona virus, there is a reasonable chance that an infected person will touch the products in the supermarket and everyone is treated as if they were infected. So in the first step, we will store them in a remote location that is called non-sterile. "

In the second phase, the expert prepared a table, which he cleaned and split in two. In one part of the table the products were applied before purification and in the other part products were stored after purification. At that point, the expert took out all the products we could store at home without their outer packaging, saying that "products like cereal that have inner packaging left only with the inner packaging that they didn't touch, bread can be stored in a bread basket for example when we take the bag out without touching the bread himself".

With regard to canned goods, pharmaceuticals, plastic packaging or various aluminum, the expert says "No problem spraying them with disinfectant and cleaning them well. Clean them really and especially where there is a chance that another person felt when buying."

As far as fruits and vegetables are concerned, Dr. Vannigan said "There is a soap solution and I put all the fruits and vegetables in it and then cleans and rubs for 20 seconds any vegetable or fruit. Treat these products as if they were waxed and clean, rinsed and dried and then stored in the refrigerator. "

With regard to fast food, pizza or burgers, the expert says: "The problem here is mainly with packaging, because the virus does not survive much on the food itself. In any case, I reheat it in the microwave until it fumes because it kills the virus." The expert noted that such a ratio should also be managed with frozen products and said "the corona can survive in frozen food for up to two years, so boil and heat any frozen food."

The expert's final recommendations were "Always buy food for two weeks and clean it straight away. Store until you clean the food in a special place you don't reach and treat the place as a scourge. If you have any symptoms of illness do not go shopping."