According to experts, touching the face with hands many times during the day unconsciously increases the risk of coronavirus transmission. Pointing out that hand cleaning is very important to deal with the virus, experts say that hand cleaning can be useless as long as we touch our faces with hands. Emphasizing that researches show that people touch their faces 9 to 23 times an hour under normal conditions, Psychiatrist
Onur Okan Demirci said that the anxiety and stress created by the coronavirus may increase this rate. Stating that some exercises can be done so that we do not touch our faces, Demirci said: “We can do 1-minute exercises. Since we have been doing these behaviors for quite some time, these urges will not be interrupted at once. Our goal is to gradually reduce this behavior. If you are a note taker, you can easily decrease these urges distinguishably. It is not possible to give a time for this; it may vary from person to person. But it will decrease over time to a minimum.”
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