Washing your hands with soap and water is a sure-fire method to keep the CCP virus, commonly known as the novel coronavirus, away—but what about your shoes? Public health experts are raising the concern of bringing the virus into your house on your shoes.
This comes after a study in the New England Journal of Medicine published on March 17, 2020, showed that the coronavirus virus could survive in significant concentrations for up to two to three days on plastic and stainless steel. While there is no evidence yet of any shoe-to-person transmission of the coronavirus, the fact that the virus can survive for such a long time on plastic suggests caution.
