translated from Spanish: Expert recommended disinfecting the Christmas tree once a day

In the early days of December people tend to do an iconic New Year’s Eve job: assembling the Christmas tree. But this year, due to the coronavirus pandemic you have to take some extra precautions, both when decorating it and when it comes to its cleaning and maintenance. This was confirmed to hoyxhoy by Dr. Ricardo Valenzuela, urgenciologist at Clínica Universidad de Los Andes, who explained that “like every object that is going to be manipulated by different people, the idea is to try to have all the parties, once they have been manipulated by a person, cleaned up. Either with a cloth with a little alcohol or one of these sprays that are surface disinfectants.” The specialist doctor also suggested that “as long as families are setting up the tree, if there are many people who are working on the same thing and are very close to each other the idea is that they wear masks during the development of that task.” And when the tree is already armed, Valenzuela advised that before plugging it in and putting it to work – to use lights – “the idea is that in those areas that have been manipulated a little surface disinfectant can be applied, in case any of those present had the virus in their hands. Although this is an indication for any surface.” Daily cleaningIn addition to the materiality of the tree and the ornaments chosen to decorate it, the doctor’s suggestion was to disinfect it at least once a day and reiterated that the same care should be applied to all objects that can be manipulated by people in the house and especially visits.

Original source in Spanish