UK Nurses Urged to Claim Cost of Washing Uniforms

As the cost-of-living crisis deepens, a microbiology expert from De Montfort University Leicester (DMU), United King-dom (UK), recently urged health-care staff to claim back the cost of washing uniforms at home. Professor Katie Laird has argued that uniforms worn by healthcare workers should be washed in-house by employers or industrially to reduce the risk of the spread of infection. Her research indicates that coronaviruses like the strain that causes COVID-19 can survive for up to three days on certain fabrics and transfer to other surfaces. In addition, bacteria often can survive ...