Using smartphone in toilet? Avoid it or you will end up in hospital, says study
Covid-19 has made people realize the importance of maintaining hygiene and cleanliness. Notably, your smartphone can be one of the dirtiest things you carry and can harbor as many germs and bacteria as a toilet seat." As people keep themselves busy on toilet seats, bacteria and germs also find their way onto the smartphone's surface through their hands. "It's an established fact that smartphones can carry up to ten times more germs than toilet seats, and from a hygiene viewpoint, touchscreens have been described as the 'mosquito of the digital age' as being vectors of infectious disease." It's not just your phone that can get contaminated; you might also risk contaminating your earbuds or other gadgets you carry with you in the washroom with harmful germs.
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