The 'coronavirus game' for children to wash their hands

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Let the children wash their hands. Let them do well. And they do it frequently. This is the direct message that the experts have been sending for several weeks. And it is that this simple act with soap and water is one of the best ways to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. A disease, Covid-19, which spreads very easily and has left Spain, and dozens of other countries, immersed in one of its worst health crises.

Getting children to understand this need, which can be challenging when they are young, has brought back videos of educational experiments to see the effects of soap with dirt or professionals to make illustrative videos in the form of a game to be easier to understand its importance.

The last to join this trend has been a Spanish nurse, Santiago Santana, who has published a video this week on the YouTube channel of the General Nursing Council. Santana, ideologist of the Coronavirus Game , proposes that we draw a coronavirus on each of our son's hands in the morning and that after washing their hands frequently during the day, the children see that the drawings, that the viruses, have disappeared at night.

The exact steps of the game:

The 'coronavirus game'.

"Although it is a simple habit, getting children to dedicate enough time to it can be a real challenge," say the experts at the bottom of the video. The promoters assure that the initiative has already gone viral and has reached children around the world. For example, many schools in Spain are sending the idea of ​​this nurse to parents by email. And now it only remains to try at home.

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