Bed sheets and pillows for covid infected people are filled with coronavirus. Not only that, the floor of the hospital where the covid infected people live, is also infested with covid germs. But it does not spread the infection. Such important information has come up in recent research.

Recently, researchers at the San Diego School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles were conducting research on coronary heart disease. From that, some new information has come up. One of them is that the virus does not spread in large numbers by touch or from any surface. It is most likely to be transmitted through steam coming out of the mouth. Even with good hygiene, all health workers who have been attending to covid patients have a very low risk of contracting the virus.

Not only this, with the help of this study more information has come up. Researchers have found a link between the coronavirus and another bacterium, or ‘microbes’. In many cases, the virus infects the patient’s body. And this is one of the causes of heart disease. Many patients with coronary heart disease are at risk of developing heart disease later in life. Researchers hope that more information about this particular bacterium will reduce the risk of heart disease in the future.

Would the need for hand washing or sanitizing be reduced if the covid germs were not spread by touch or from any floor? Researchers are not answering this right now. Says, to follow the hygiene rules. Recent research, however, has called into question the theory that the virus spreads widely from touch to the surface, as claimed in previous studies.

SC / 14 June