It is not enough to wash your hands regularly and apply barrier gestures to fight the spread of the new coronavirus. This fight also goes through a domestic front. There is disinfection of his home, recommended especially after outings to avoid bringing the virus home. But there is also the case of the clothes we wear.
Washing machine 60 degree cycle
Do you need to take special precautions to wash laundry that is potentially contaminated with Covid-19? At this stage, the data on the lifetime of the virus on tissue vary. On February 18, the High Council of Public Health, seized by the General Directorate of Health (DGS), issued an opinion notably relating to the treatment of linen in a confirmed case of contamination with Covid-19.
The body therefore recommends, at this level of knowledge acquired on the virus, to “wash the sheets and linen of a confirmed patient in a washing machine with a usual detergent and a cycle at minimum 60 degrees for at least 30 minutes “.
Data corroborated by two specialists with Checknews, the verification service of Release, who spoke with the virologist of the Lille CHU Anne Goffard and Gilles Pialoux, from the infectious and tropical diseases department of the Parisian hospital Tenon. The daily writes that “Covid-19 loses its infectious potential from exposure to 56 degrees for twenty to thirty minutes or 65 degrees for five to ten minutes”.
No alcohol or chlorine on fabrics
On its website, the World Health Organization (WHO) stresses that spraying alcohol or chlorine on the body and tissues will not kill the new coronavirus. And could even prove to be dangerous.
“Spraying these substances can be harmful to clothing or mucous membranes,” warns the world body, stressing however that these two products can “be useful for disinfecting surfaces”.
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