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Google Handwashing Video Doodle Praises Ignaz Semmelweis During Novel Coronavirus Pandemic; Procedure to Wash Hands

Internet search engine Google on Friday (March 20, 2020) posted a handwashing video Doodle recognizing Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis during the novel coronavirus pandemic. Ignaz Semmelweis, a German and Hungarian doctor, was generally ascribed as the first individual to find the medical advantages of handwashing.
Friday’s Google Doodle reveals a video of the best way to appropriately wash your hands. Handwashing is one of the least demanding and best approaches to prevent disease, diminish the spread of germs and infections. Clean hands can stop the germs, bacteria, viruses from spreading starting with one individual then onto the next – and throughout a whole community. Look at the video below!
“Today’s Doodle recognizes Hungarian physician Dr Ignaz Semmelweis, widely attributed as the first person to discover the medical benefits of handwashing. On this day in 1847, Semmelweis was appointed Chief Resident in the maternity clinic of the Vienna General Hospital, where he deduced and demonstrated that requiring doctors to disinfect their hands vastly reduced the transmission of disease,” Google wrote.
Born on July 1, 1818, Ignaz Semmelweisis renowned for presenting hand disinfection standards in obstetrical consideration.
Google said its handwashing doodle follows the official rules on the most proficient method to appropriately wash your hands from the World Health Organization.
How would you wash your hands appropriately?
“Washing your hands properly takes about as long as singing ‘Happy Birthday’ twice,” said WHO. Investigate the following pictures below for the correct handwashing procedure:

The UN health agency has been promoting good hand hygiene among a few efforts to help battle the COVID-19 outbreak, which has executed 9,827 deaths, across 158 nations and domains up until now.
Starting at prior today, the novel coronavirus has spread to almost 150 nations around the world with significant flare-ups in China, Iran, Italy, the United States, and a few nations in Europe. The virus has been contracted by more than 2,40,000 individuals and made a casualty more than 10000 individuals around the world.
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