“WHO strongly recommended washing your hands and not touching your face when using cash in your calculations. The WHO does not make firm recommendations that cash cannot be used, but theoretically cash can also be a channel for the transmission of viruses, ”the report said.
In particular, according to WHO, coronavirus can be active on paper for three to four days, and on plastic for up to nine days.
At the same time, the Rospotrebnadzor assured that banknotes issued by credit organizations in Russia “are kept at the Bank of Russia for at least 14 days from the date of receipt”.
“Thus, credit organizations receive“ clean ”banknotes. But not all banknotes immediately go to banks, ”the press service explained.
In addition, the department called on Russians to take precautions when dialing a pin code when paying with a credit card, as well as remember to wash their hands and wipe smartphones with disinfectants.
Previously, the chief pulmonologist of Russia, head of the department of hospital therapy, Russian National Research Medical University named after N.I. Pirogova Alexander Chuchalin in an interview with the RT project and Anton Krasovsky's "Epidemic" talked about the four stages of coronavirus infection with COVID-19.