Can I get COVID-19 Coronavirus by handling cash and credit cards?

This is one of the emerging questions as COVID-19 or the Novel Coronavirus becomes a pandemic today.  It is officially a global pandemic as declared by the World Health Organization (WHO).  Now, can you get  COVID-19 Coronavirus by handling cash and credit cards?

Can I get COVID-19 Coronavirus by handling cash and credit cards?

"So this is a respiratory virus, so it spreads through coughs and sneezes and the droplets that go out of your body. They go about six feet and fall to the ground. It can land on surfaces, it can remain viable on the surfaces, but that's not the main way that this is transmitting,"  - Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at Johns Hopkins University's Center for Health Security

The above answer was shared through  an interview via CNN.com

"I don't really, myself, worry about money or coins as a major way that this transmitting," he added. He urged people to wash their hands frequently, including after handling money, but reiterated "it's not the main way" the virus spreads.

 

COVID-19 is Now a Global Pandemic

The World Health Organization just declared the novel coronavirus outbreak to be a pandemic. The novel coronavirus outbreak is the first pandemic caused by a coronavirus, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday. "Describing the situation as a pandemic does not change WHO’s assessment of the threat posed by this coronavirus. It doesn’t change what WHO is doing, and it doesn’t change what countries should do," he added. - via CNN.com

Keep safe everyone and avoid large crowds.