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This man is literally putting steam on the coronavirus.
Hussein Adnan runs a café with a shisha bar in Baghdad together with a business partner.
But the Iraqis did not want to pull on the shisha because of the spread of the corona virus.
Mustafa Kassar
,
guest
"The restaurants have reopened, the cafes too, but we were still worried, especially about the shisha. Because you inhale and it fills your lungs - that's why it's pretty dangerous."
Understandable - after all, nobody wants to drag the coronavirus of a possibly infected guest directly into their own lungs.
But Adnan had an idea how to get his business up and running again.
Hussein Adnan
,
owner
"Because many people were afraid to smoke shisha, I came up with a disinfection method. I filmed how I do it and posted it on social networks. People liked my idea and more came back Customers who also wanted to smoke a shisha. "
Adnan works with heat - and for safety's sake also with a strong disinfectant.
Hussein Adnan
,
owner
"I use this steam cleaner to disinfect the hookah. It heats the water to more than the boiling point and hot steam comes out. I also use hydrogen peroxide to disinfect the hookah really well."
In any case, Adnan's guests are convinced - and are steaming again.
Even if the concern about the corona virus remains.
Zainab Asaad
,
customer
"If there were viable economic alternatives, I would say that I am against reopening cafes and restaurants. But economically - we can't stand shutdown much longer. Part of me is happy for people, but one other part is unhappy for health reasons. People do not adhere 100 percent to the safety measures. "
More than 10,000 people have died in Iraq from or with a corona infection since the pandemic began.
The number of infected people is also increasing again in Iraq, with around 5,000 new cases being registered every day.