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Can flushing spread communicable disease such as COVID-19?
COVID-19 has spread rapidly across the world, causing a public health crisis, economic losses, and widespread concern. With countries trying to return to “new-normal” activity, reinforced hygiene solutions are required to suppress and reduce risks of rebounding infection rates.
Apart from fluids from the respiratory tract, other bodily fluids that include blood and faecal matter can carry viruses, posing a significant health risk. Research has already shown that the novel coronavirus can actively replicate in the gastrointestinal tract. Combined with the alarming observation from the Journal of Physics, that during the toilet flushing process, a massive upward transport of particles occurs, with 40%–60% of particles reaching above the toilet seat. This can play a concerning and harmful role in transmission, leading to large-scale virus spread.
Blocking the path of faecal transmission, which occurs commonly in toilet usage, is of fundamental importance in suppressing the spread of viruses with Toilet seats being a viable surface for virus transmission.
Our signature range of washroom hygiene solutions can support your businesses efforts to protect people and enhance lives. Our toilet Seat Cleaner disinfectant product can enhance your washroom cubicle to sterilize toilet seats and disrupts the physical spread of the pathogen.
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