THERE’S one question on everyone’s lips at the moment – how to avoid Coronavirus. So, let’s assume that you’re washing your hands compulsively (anyone else bored of Happy Birthday, yet?) and basica…
So here’s your action plan - what you need to clean, when you need to clean it, and how you need to clean it…There are huge numbers of cleaning products out there but actually, the best ones for killing viruses are alcohol and bleach.
First up, ignore all the smart alecs telling you that alcohol-based anti-bacterial gel won’t work on a virus as it only works on bacteria, they’re wrong. Detergents and soap don’t kill microbes, they just loosen them from the surface. So to decontaminate a surface, you need to rinse it under clean running water once you’ve loosened the microbes.Both alcohol and bleach can be effective in around 15 to 30 seconds, so you don’t have to leave them on for hours on end.Cleaning cloths and sponges can readily spread viruses from one surface to another — you don’t want to wipe it off one surface and onto other.
“So to decontaminate a surface, you need to rinse it under clean running water once you’ve loosened the microbes.”
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