A General Wellbeing Doctor, Dr Michael Oguntoye, has cautioned that cell phones could transmit sicknesses and diseases on the off chance that it interacts with body liquids of a tainted individual.
How telephones can transmit infection, germs
Oguntoye told newsmen that telephones are "fomites" which could fill in as medium of transmitting viral creature, causing maladies and contaminations on individuals.
He portrayed fomites as any non-living article or substance equipped for conveying irresistible creatures, for example, infections or microscopic organisms.
"Taking a phone into the restroom and after that leaving with it, can convey ailments and germs, particularly when you don't wash your hands and afterward turning out," he said.
As indicated by him, telephones can exchange infections and infection starting with one individual then onto the next.
Oguntoye, a disease transmission specialist with Kwara Service of Wellbeing, exhorted individuals to repel telephones from the can and watch individual cleanliness, for example, hand washing constantly.
He likewise suggested cleaning of telephones with disinfectant that would not hurt the telephones.