Coronavirus: Samsung’s Bengaluru R&D team brings hand hygiene alert app

Novel Coronavirus pandemic has caused several thousands of deaths around the world; while the health experts and scientists work on the COVID-19 vaccine, the general public has been asked to maintain a social distance between friends and office colleagues by staying at home and most importantly focus on personal hygiene in terms of washing hands are regular intervals.

As per the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations, people should wash hands for a full 20 seconds to be safe from getting ill.

Now, Samsung has come up with a creative application that alerts the Galaxy Watch users to wash hands and also sets a timer with a minimum of 25 seconds, to fully wash the hands.