Dia Mirza, Ekta Kapoor takes up WHO's 'Safe Hands Challenge' to fight coronavirus

Dia Mirza and Ekta Kapoor took the WHO's Safe Hands Challenge and shared interesting videos.

Mumbai: Dia Mirza and Ekta Kapoor on Thursday took the WHO's Safe Hands Challenge and shared videos where they can be seen washing their hands to raise awareness about safe hygiene practices to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

The short Instagram clip showed Dia thoroughly scrubbing her hands in rhythmic forward and backward strokes while humming the tune "sabke ho surakshit haath" (may everyone's hands be safe).

The caption of the post read: "This is a time to ensure best and safest practices to keep hands clean. Learn the simple way to ensure we have #SafeHands. Let's come together to keep our communities, families, colleagues and loved ones healthy and happy! Share and help spread the message. Let's work together to beat #Covid19."

The video gathered almost 40,000 likes in about an hour and attracted several positive comments from Mirza's fans.

After being nominated by the Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani, Ekta accepted the challenge and shared a video on Twitter of washing her hands. "I accept ur #SafeHandsChallenge@smritiirani! I nominate@anitahasnandani@RheaKapoor@Roymouni@Divyanka_T! P.S due my ring bracelet filled hands it takes me a whole minute plus an additional layer of sanitizer! And don't mind d hair it's my quarantine look."

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Many Indian celebs have posted videos of themselves taking up this challenge, such as Deepika Padukone, Anushka Sharma and Ekta Kapoor to name a few.

From ANI inputs.