If you press the elevator button, will you get COVID-19?

Under special circumstances, it will be infected with COVID-19 virus.

1, unsterilized elevators are susceptible to virus infection.

Elevator is one of the crowded spaces. When there are more than ten people standing in a narrow space, as long as one of them is infected with COVID-19 virus, sneezes or coughs, the virus can spread in the elevator with air and droplets and attach to the elevator button.

Therefore, many properties have carried out regular disinfection and cleaning of elevators.

And disinfection is really necessary. After testing, experts have detected the existence of COVID-19 virus on the surface of door handles and elevator buttons.

2, direct contact with the elevator is easy to be infected with COVID-19 virus.

In fact, even if the logistics has been disinfected, elevator buttons will still have certain virus risks due to the continuous use of elevators and the mobile use of people.

Therefore, some logistics companies provide special paper in the elevator to prevent users from touching the elevator button when using the elevator. Therefore, in this way, COVID-19 virus can avoid touching the elevator button.

3. Failure to protect individuals.

When everyone who enters the elevator wears a mask, even if they sneeze or cough, the virus will not attach to the elevator button.

Even if there is a virus on the button, as long as the elevator users wash their hands with alcohol disinfection and disinfectant in time after returning home, they can kill the virus on their hands.

Of course, be careful not to rub your eyes with the hands that have pressed the elevator, so as not to get infected with COVID-19 virus.

As far as the cases found so far are concerned, it is true that no one was infected with COVID-19 virus because of pressing the elevator button. More is the virus infection caused by close contact with virus-infected people.

Therefore, as long as personal protection is done, COVID-19 virus can be avoided on elevator buttons.