Meigs Health Matters… The importance of handwashing
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Keeping hands clean is especially important to help prevent COVID-19 and other viruses from spreading. Handwashing is one of the best ways to keep you and your family from getting sick. Germs can spread from other people or surfaces when you touch your eyes, nose, or mouth with your hands. Transmissions can occur when you prepare food or drinks with unwashed hands. And also, when you sneeze, cough, or blow your nose and then touch common objects.
The Centers for Disease Control recommends washing your hands for 20 seconds with soap and water or using a hand sanitizer of at least 60% alcohol to avoid the transmission of germs. Critical times for handwashing are before and after:
Meigs Health Matters… The importance of handwashing
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Keeping hands clean is especially important to help prevent COVID-19 and other viruses from spreading. Handwashing is one of the best ways to keep you and your family from getting sick. Germs can spread from other people or surfaces when you touch your eyes, nose, or mouth with your hands. Transmissions can occur when you prepare food or drinks with unwashed hands. And also, when you sneeze, cough, or blow your nose and then touch common objects.
The Centers for Disease Control recommends washing your hands for 20 seconds with soap and water or using a hand sanitizer of at least 60% alcohol to avoid the transmission of germs. Critical times for handwashing are before and after:
One additional COVID-19 death reported in Gallia… Latest case data in Gallia, Mason, Meigs
Staff Report
OHIO VALLEY The Ohio Department of Health reported one additional COVID-19 death in Gallia County on Friday, a person in the 50-59 age range.
In addition, three new COVID-19 cases were reported in Gallia County.
The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reported one additional case of COVID-19 in Mason County on Friday.
Four additional COVID-19 cases were reported by the Meigs County Health Department on Friday.
Here is a closer look at COVID-19 cases in the region:
Gallia County
ODH reported a total of 2,353 cases of COVID-19 (since March 2020) in Gallia County as part of Friday’s update, three more than on Thursday.