Video shows clearly how thousands can contract COVID-19 in 1 day if there's no lockdown
- A video has surfaced online showing how countless people can expose themselves to the risk of contracting COVID-19 without even knowing
- The footage shows many locals holding a specific surface of a metallic object to help them negotiate a curve
- It seems to portray the extreme relevance of the idea to lock down places to restrict movement and limit the spread of COVID-19
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A video has surfaced on social media showing a very easy way that coronavirus or COVID-19 can be contracted by countless people on a daily basis if normal life activities continue.
The fast-trending footage sighted by YEN.com.gh shows how numerous people walking casually on the street were all touching the same surface to aid their balance.
It appears that the route is highly used by the locals in the area because all of them seemed to hold the metallic surface without even realizing it.
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The COVID-19 pathogens are reported by health experts to be able to stay on metallic surfaces for up to 12 hours before eventually dying off.
This simply implies that if there is an infected person among the several people holding the same surface, all of them could be exposed to the risk of contracting the disease.
It simply portrays the essence of lockdowns and isolation measures such as quarantining as people would not be able to come out and risk their lives in such a manner.
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In other news, a Ghanaian gentleman Opoku Ababio and his wife Dorothy Opoku along with three other accomplices have been arrested for making and selling fake hand sanitizers.
In a video report sighted YEN.com.gh on the official Facebook handle of Joy FM, the illegal hand sanitizer manufacturing unit was at a suburb of Techiman where all the five suspects were arrested.
Ghana as a country is witnessing a shortage in hand sanitizers following the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in the country which requires constant washing of hands or use of hand sanitizers.
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