How to clean your smartphone to prevent coronavirus

For prevention coronavirus it is important to always keep your hands clean and not touch your face, especially in crowded places. However, what about smartphones? After all, putting a gadget to our ear, we also expose ourselves to great danger. To eliminate the risk of infection from your own mobile phone, only thorough disinfection will help, but you need to do it wisely, writes TheVerge.

First of all, it is worth noting that a smartphone, like any metal, glass or plastic surface, can indeed be a carrier of coronavirus. According to the reportPersistence of coronaviruses on inanimate surfaces and their inactivation with biocidal agents Journal of Hospital Infection, the risk of infection from contact with objects persists for up to 9 days. You can disinfect ordinary surfaces with a solution of ethyl alcohol (62–71%), hydrogen peroxide (0.5%) or sodium hypochlorite (0.1%). However, this trick won't work with smartphones.

Alcohol and even more so hydrogen peroxide can seriously damage the oleophobic coating of the display, which protects against greasy marks, fingerprints and various smudges. You can replace such dangerous chemicals with slightly soapy water applied to a lint-free cloth. This is how you advise cleaning your smartphone

Google and Apple, however, this method does not fully guarantee the destruction of viruses.

A slightly harsher method is suggested by microbiologist Charles Gerba in Health magazine. is he recommends wipe the devices with a napkin moistened with a solution of alcohol and water in a ratio of 40% to 60%.

There is also a much more reliable and safe way. It consists in using protective glass or films that can be glued over the display of your smartphone. Many of them do not have an oleophobic layer, and if there is one, then its destruction over time is unlikely to be a big loss. You can always replace glass without harm to the screen of the gadget. In addition, this protection will protect you from scratches and chips when dropped.

Do you disinfect your smartphone? How do you do it? Let us know in the comments.