{"id":5636,"date":"2020-04-17T01:24:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T01:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=5636"},"modified":"2020-04-17T01:24:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T01:24:35","slug":"who-recommended-disinfectants-are-effective-against-novel-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/who-recommended-disinfectants-are-effective-against-novel-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO-recommended disinfectants are effective against novel coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>When used correctly, both alcohol-based hand disinfectants recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) are effective against the novel coronavirus Sars-Cov-2, as confirmed by an international research team headed by Professor Stephanie Pf\u00e4nder from the Department of Molecular and Medical Virology at Ruhr-Universit\u00e4t Bochum (RUB). The journal\u00a0<\/strong><em><strong>Emerging Infectious Diseases<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0published the article in its online edition.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>30 seconds for disinfection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The researchers exposed Sars-Cov-2 viruses for 30 seconds to the WHO-recommended disinfectant formulations. &#8220;This time frame was chosen based on recommendations for hand disinfectants,&#8221; says Stephanie Pf\u00e4nder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Subsequently, the team tested the viruses in cell culture assays and analysed how many viruses remained infectious. &#8220;We showed that both WHO-recommended formulations sufficiently inactivate the virus after 30 seconds,&#8221; as Stephanie Pf\u00e4nder sums up the results. Plus, this does not merely apply to the WHO solutions; rather, their main components, the alcohols ethanol and isopropanol, also showed adequate inactivation of the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WHO-recommended formulations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The disinfectant I recommended by the WHO consists of 80 volume percent ethanol, 1.45 volume percent glycerine and 0.125 volume percent hydrogen peroxide. Disinfectant II consists of 75 volume percent isopropanol, 1.45 volume percent glycerine and 0.125 volume percent hydrogen peroxide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The disinfectant I recommended by the WHO consists of 80 volume percent ethanol, 1.45 volume percent glycerine and 0.125 volume percent hydrogen peroxide. Disinfectant II consists of 75 volume percent isopropanol, 1.45 volume percent glycerine and 0.125 volume percent hydrogen peroxide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,36,4,3,35],"tags":[2296,2294,757],"class_list":["post-5636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fitness","category-health-wellness-2","category-newsmakers","category-spotlight","category-wellness-2","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5638,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636\/revisions\/5638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}