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The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO) says that people should avoid replacing the usual handshake with the elbow, as this also contributes to transmitting the new coronavirus, according to the ‘NY Post’.
“When greeting people, it is better to avoid elbows because the gesture puts them one meter from the other person,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Saturday. Instead, the person in charge “put his hand on his heart.” “I like to put my hand on my heart to greet people today,” he says.
“When greeting people, it is best to avoid collisions with the elbows because they put you 1 meter from the other person. I like to put my hand on my heart when I greet people these days. – Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization https://t.co/Zw8IbJMq2b
– NYC EMS Watch (@NYCEMSwatch) March 9, 2020
In March, at the beginning of the pandemic, the person in charge had published this idea, through his Twitter account.
– When greeting people, it is best to avoid bumps in the elbows because they put you 1 meter from the other person. I like to put my hand on my heart when I greet people these days.
– Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) March 7, 2020
Carlos Fuente Lafuente, director of the ISEMCO Protocol Training Center and former director of the Protocol of the Princess das Asturias Foundation, also agrees with the director of the WHO. “The elbows that we see so much are, in my opinion, a greeting of certain bad taste, unhygienic and that, in addition, does not comply with current regulations on mandatory social distance,” explains the specialist to the newspaper ‘ABC’. .
Opinion that follows the same line of Marina Fernández, director of Communication and International Relations of the International School of Protocol, Grupo EIP, who emphasizes to the same newspaper that “the logical thing is to say ‘hello’ while maintaining a safe distance, avoiding physical contact” .
Other types of greetings have also become popular, such as small kicks, which, therefore, and in accordance with Covid-19 prevention standards, are excluded. «With what they called“ Wuhan Shake ”on social networks, the city where the virus originated and the gesture he made with his legs, we return to the same thing: either you are with a person who has very long legs or the distance of security is not respected ”, highlights Maira Álvarez Mateos, a journalist quoted by ‘ABC’.
As alternatives, in addition to the one already described by Tedros, Tom Freiden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the United States, advises doing “Namaste”, a greeting from Southeast Asia that consists of accompanying this word by clasping the palms of the hands at chest level and leaning forward as a sign of respect.
For their part, Fuente and Álvarez, who prefer other greeting formulas based on eye contact or a smile in the eyes, bet on an option that both consider the most inclusive: the word “thank you” in sign language, according to the ‘ ABC ‘.
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