Many people have stopped using cold, hard — and dirty — cash in favor of debit, credit or contactless forms of payment.
Transferred from one person to the next, money is susceptible to picking up a whole host of germs. And naturally, when COVID-19 hit, this left people questioning if cash was safe, while many businesses started encouraging cashless forms of payment.
But do we really need to be concerned about getting COVID-19 from cash?
Probably not. With months of research behind us, our knowledge of COVID-19 has changed, and so too has the way experts think about surfaces, like that of paper bills and copper coins.
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Transferred from one person to the next, money is susceptible to picking up a whole host of germs. And naturally, when COVID-19 hit, this left people questioning if cash was safe, while many businesses started encouraging cashless forms of payment.
But do we really need to be concerned about getting COVID-19 from cash?
Probably not. With months of research behind us, our knowledge of COVID-19 has changed, and so too has the way experts think about surfaces, like that of paper bills and copper coins.
Read more
Cashless India hurts the Economy
