Can you safely handle the mail? While there's low risk, those making deliveries are making changes to try to protect themselves from the coronavirus.
FILE - In this Friday, March 20, 2020 file photo, a postal worker wears a protective mask and gloves while operating a route in the Queens borough of New York. Health experts say the risks are very low that coronavirus will remain on envelopes or packages and infect anyone that comes in contact with it. But those on the frontlines of all those deliveries are taking steps to try to protect themselves.
“We don’t know where they come from, who’s touched them,” she said of the envelopes. “It’s scary not knowing.” Payne, who delivers to more than 800 mailboxes a day in a town about 70 miles north of Chattanooga, said her post office constantly wipes down door handles and has provided plenty of gloves.
Tests led by U.S. government scientists found that the virus can live on cardboard for up to a day, but that was in a controlled lab situation and does not reflect what might happen in daily life or with other materials, such as envelopes, said Julie Fischer, a microbiologist at Georgetown University’s global health security research center.
But “postal workers are at risk because they are coming into contact with each other and the public,” she said. “The biggest risk is still exposure to an infected person.” In a letter to its members Wednesday, union president Frederic Rolando said 51 postal employees had tested positive for COVID-19 so far and that nearly 2,000 were in quarantine. One postal carrier, a 50-year-old from New York, died of complications related to the virus, though it was not clear if he was infected on the job.
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