If there’s anything that binds humans around the world closer together, it is the instinct of survival. Along the way, we have made several changes in our approach towards hygiene, but in keeping with the universal laws, no goal is met efficiently without honouring the basics. In a pandemic that affected the world, it is the basics that were most preached, most circulated, and most recommended by doctors and well wishers alike. “Wash your hands”, probably makes for the most spoken phrase in 2020. And for good reason, where hygiene prevails, so does trust and health. Here is a list of quirky cleanliness trends around the world. JAPAN While Japan is infamous for its disciplinary approaches, their culture propagates true belief in the connection between the outside cleanliness having an effect on the inside cleanliness/purity of mind and spirit. Upon entering a traditional home in Japan, you are expected to change into fresher clothes and gargle your mouth to maintain a...
Introduction The advent of coronavirus shook us all in the year 2020. As we move onto 2021, we hope to get out of this situation and return to normalcy as we did before. The year 2020 taught us that whether it is a global pandemic or an outbreak, hand hygiene is our first and best line of defence. The deadly impact of coronavirus hasn’t slowed down yet. To track the global coronavirus outbreak, an estimated 99,782,678 people are infected worldwide, and as scary as it sounds, 2,139,214 of them are dead. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ In this blog, we are going to cover some methods and practices we can follow, to stay protected not only in 2021 but throughout our lives. So here is our guide to hand hygiene in 2021 The Approach Towards Hand Hygiene Hand Hygiene practices have been around for centuries. Right from our childhood days, the importance of hand hygiene has imbibed upon us. But over the years, most of us ignor...