International Journal of Applied Science and Engineering Review
ISSN 2582-6271

Title:
ROLE OF DISINFECTANT IN REDUCING COVID-19 OUTBREAK

Authors:
Fitria Hidayanti and Ilham Mutaqin

Abstract:
The coronavirus disease (Covid-19) is a highly contagious viral infection caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which appears in Wuhan-China and Taiwan spread throughout the world. Genomic analysis revealed that SARS-CoV-2 was phylogenetically related to viruses carried by bats such as acute respiratory syndrome. Until now, bats are suspected as intermediaries from the spread of COVID to humans. Coronavirus is very fast to spread between humans to humans. There are no clinically approved antiviral drugs or vaccines against COVID-19. However, several broad-spectrum antiviral drugs have been tested against COVID-19 in clinical trials, resulting in clinical recovery. In order to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus, spraying disinfectants is carried out to sterilize the environment, goods and crowded places. However, at this time, there is a phenomenon of spraying disinfectants massively in various places, even directly to humans to kill the COVID-19 virus attached to clothes or the human body. This is very dangerous to human health because the side effects of the constituent disinfectants can cause side effects on the skin, eyes and breathing. So the use of disinfectant for the human body is not recommended.

Keywords:
Disinfectant, COVID-19, Coronavirus, Syndrome, Outbreak

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