As the coronavirus outbreak continues to spread, so have the quarantine challenges, including one that features a habit that should come the most natural to us. Washing your hands.
#SafeHandsChallenge
The World Health Organization (WHO) launched an instructional YouTube video of an 11-step process of how to correctly wash your hands to fight and protect against the spread.
To advertise and encourage better hand hygiene, the WHO started the Safe Hand Challenge. Celebrities like Ryan Reynolds, Greta Thunberg, are Leonardo DiCaprio was asked to participate and share videos of themselves washing their hands as a protective method against coronavirus amongst their fans.
Even Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of WHO, has nominated others celebrates such as BTS, Priyanka Chopra and Jane Fonda via Twitter to share their Safe Hands Challenge videos. As the challenge goes viral more stars and youth are uploading videos of themselves promoting hand hygiene and sharing much need information, according to the WHO guidelines for washing hands.
#GhenCoVyChallenge
Another hand hygiene challenge has taken TikTok by storm, the Hand Washing Challenge. Originating in Vietnam as the Ghen Co Vy (Vietnamese for coronavirus) challenge, and created by Vietnamese dancer Quang Dang, the dance imitates the scrubbing, washing, and cleaning your hands to prevent the transmission of COVID-19.
Quang Dang’s catchy hand washing dance moves were choregraphed to the Vietnamese hit, “Ghen”, which was cleverly converted into a hand washing PSA by lyricist Khac Hung and the Vietnam’s National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health for him to dance to. Since the video took off, thousands of copycat Hand Washing Challenge or GhenCoVy challenge videos have popped up across TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter.
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As unusual as the trending challenge is, it’s positively impacting people around the world to take their health and safety seriously and to do their part in preventing the spreading of the coronavirus to themselves and others.
