SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands – ECDC supports World Hand Hygiene Day 2021
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Friday, May 7, 2021
However, a large percentage of these infections are preventable by improving hand hygiene practices.
Key Points:
- However, a large percentage of these infections are preventable by improving hand hygiene practices.
- In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, hand hygiene also is one of the most effective ways of reducing the spread of SARS-CoV-2.
- With this years slogan Seconds save lives clean your hands!, the World Health Organization calls on healthcare workers to achieve effective hand hygiene at the point of care.
- To be effective, hand hygiene should be performed: at 5 specific moments (i.e.