We’re also following the flight delays and tomorrow’s impacts after a plane crash at RDU. Plus, Only on WRAL, why a high school student is not allowed to participate in one of the most important events of his life.. and how he and his family are fighting for him to graduate. Watch WRAL-TV at 11 p.m., and search for these and other stories on WRAL.com.

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New York (CNN) -- Each time people dine in a restaurant or wait in line during a lunchtime run to the nearest sandwich shop, fast-food or salad chain, they're literally placing their wellbeing in the hands of people hired to prepare their meals.

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Hand-washing

The first week of December is Handwashing Awareness Week, making it the ideal time to make sure your children are using the right handwashing techniques to keep themselves safe. 

Pediatrician says hand sanitizer better than handwashing for toddlers

National Handwashing Awareness Week

Japanese researchers deterimine SARS-CoV-2 virus can survive on human skin for nine hours.

we know the SARS cov to virus can be spread through droplets and aerosols, but you can also become infected by touching contaminated surfaces, then touching parts of your face. That begs the question. How long can the virus actually survive on our hands and faces? Figuring out how long a contagious virus could survive on human skin isn't an easy challenge. Not many people are willing to have live SARS cov to smeared on them just for science. That's why Japanese researchers used an unusual alternative. Human skin collected it autopsy about 24 hours after death. Their study, published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, tested the survival time of the SARS cov to virus on human skin samples as well as other surfaces, including stainless steel and glass. And they compared it to the survival time of influenza virus. What they found was significant. The SARS cov to virus could survive on human skin for nine hours, significantly longer than the roughly two hours that the flu virus could remain a threat. Even more significantly, the SARS cov to virus remained active for 11 hours when it was mixed with mucus as it would be from a cough or sneeze The good news. When the samples were exposed to an 80% alcohol type hand sanitizer, the virus was inactivated within 15 seconds.

Coronavirus & skin: New study reinforces importance of handwashing

Washing your hands

Think about all the things touched in a day and use safer ways to do some of the same things.

O. FOR THAT TIME OR BE TEMPORARILY LAID OFF. >>> YOU MAY BE WASHING YOUR HANDS MORE, HOWEVER, ARE YOU MAKING IT A POINT TO TOUCH LESS? FIVE ON YOUR SIDE'S MONICA LIBERTY SHOWS US BY WATCHING WHAT YOU TOUCH COULD HELP YOU. >> Reporter: JUST THINK WHEN YOU'RE RUNNING AN ESSENTIALER RAND LIKE GETTING GAS, YOU MIGHT TOUCH SOMETHING CONTAMINATED WITH THE CORONAVIRUS. HERE ARE STEPS TO TAKE TO PROTECT YOURSELF. WHETHER YOU ARE GASSING UP, OR GETTING GROCERIES, YOU ARE TOUCHING SOMETHING. THE PRIMARY SPREAD HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE COUGH OR SNEEZE, THOSE DROPLETS LAND PLACES AND CAN STAY ACTIVE THERE FOR A WHILE, HOURS TO DAYS. SO TAKE EXTRA STEPS TO STAY SAFE. FIRST, AVOID TOUCHING SERVICES WITH YOUR FINGERTIPS. USE A PEN OR A KNUCKLE TO PRESS A BETTON. YOU'RE MORE LIKELY TO TOUCH YOUR FACE WITH YOUR FINGER. ALSO, CARRY TISSUES TO USE TO GRAB DOORS, HANDRAILS, AND TOSS IT RIGHT AWAY. ANOTHER OPTION WITH THE COOLER TEMPERATURES AGAIN, WEAR LONG SLEEVES TO PROTECT YOUR HANDS. AND AS WE MENTIONED MULTIPLE TIMES BEFORE, YOUR PHONE AND CAR NEED CLEANING, TOO, EVERY TIME YOU GO IN AND OUT. WE'RE STILL IN A MODE OF CONSTANT AVOIDANCE RIGHT NOW, SO STILL DO NOT EASE UP ON THAT HAND WASHING OF 20 SECONDS. WRAL NEWS 5 ON YOUR SIDE. >>> MONICA HAS MORE TIPS TO AVOID GERMS AT THE GROCERY

Warning: Avoid touching things

While medical experts say it appears the primary spread of coronavirus happens when people cough or sneeze, those droplets land places, and can stay there, active, for hours to days.

When you must go out, avoid touching things with these tips

Why Soap Works

Tired of washing your hands for 20 seconds each time? Fingers starting to prune or feel like sandpaper?

Why soap, sanitizer and warm water work against Covid-19 and other viruses

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Ryan Bliss, the talented local dad who I've written about several times here on Go Ask Mom over the years, has a new song just for the littlest ones among us who may still need some hand washing lessons.


Still want to hammer home those hand-washing lessons with the kids? Local YouTuber and dad has a song for that

Cary dad Ryan Bliss features songs for toddlers on his new YouTube channel

As parents, we all do our best to teach our kids how to do things like wash their hands. But as the coronavirus continues to spread around the world, we're all trying to be a lot more diligent in our hand-washing, and we also may have learned that we haven't been doing it right all along. In other words, 20 seconds is a really long time.