Expert from Nanjing CDC talks about home disinfection

2021年08月08日 17:30:21 | 来源： Hello Jiangsu

Zhang Shougang, chief physician of Disinfection and Vector Control Department, Nanjing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, introduced things you need to bear in mind during home disinfection at the press conference held Sunday morning.

8月8日上午，南京市召开第十九场新冠肺炎疫情防控新闻发布会，南京市疾控中心消毒与病媒生物防制科主任医师张守刚介绍如何做好居家消毒。

We are responsible for our own health during this pandemic. It’s important to disinfect constantly even when we’re at home, Zhang said.

Here are some guidelines for daily disinfection. First, we don’t normally need to disinfect the air at home. We just need to open the windows and ventilate the rooms, with the help of ventilators if necessary.

It’s also vital that all the surfaces remain clean. We can apply iodophors to the floors and tables, and wipe them clean 30 minutes later.

Air filters need routine cleaning, we can soak them in chlorine disinfectant before washing them.

As for tableware, it’s best to boil them or soak them in chlorine disinfectant.

Phones, keyboards, mouse, and other things we frequently touch need to be wiped by alcohol pads or alcohol cotton balls.

新冠肺炎疫情以来，每个人都是自我防护的第一责任人，尤其居家消毒也非常重要。首先，我们一般家庭空气不需要消毒，加强通风，尽量开启窗户，通风不畅可以用排风扇。地面和物体表面保持清洁卫生非常重要，必要时采用含氯的碘进行喷洒，30分钟以后清洁干净，对家里面的空气滤网这一块，要定期清洗，用含氯消毒剂进行浸泡消毒、清洗晾干，对餐饮具采用煮沸消毒，也可以采用含氯消毒液浸泡消毒干净，对手机、键盘、鼠标等频繁接触的物品采用酒精棉球或者棉片擦试消毒。

It’s especially important to keep our hands clean during the COVID-19 outbreak, Zhang said. We need to wash our hands before meals, after using the bathroom, coming home, touching our pets, and being in contact with contaminated environments. If running water happens to be unavailable, we can use hand sanitizers instead.

Used tissues, wipes, and masks must be thrown into specialized garbage bins. They will be soaked with disinfectant before being sorted.

Private cars don’t usually need disinfection. We just need to ventilate the car and wipe the frequently touched surfaces (like steering wheel and door handles) with sanitizing wipes.

手卫生在新冠肺炎疫情防控当中非常重要，餐前便后、外出归来、接触宠物，以及可能接触到污染环境以后要采用流水洗手，在没有流水的情况下，可以采用免洗手消毒剂进行消毒。我们在家里面用过的纸巾、湿巾、口罩等要集中投放到专用的垃圾桶，用消毒液喷至湿润以后进行统一收集，按垃圾分类进行投放。我们一般私家车是不需要消毒的，加强车辆的通风，必要时对我们频繁接触的方向盘、门把手等用消毒湿巾擦试消毒。

In addition, Zhang also reminded the public of some misunderstandings about disinfection.First, adding the most-commonly used 84 disinfectant or other disinfectants into the laundry detergent to wash clothes makes no sense for disinfection.

Second, spraying disinfectant directly on clothes doesn’t help and may cause some accidents. We usually disinfect clothes by soaking them.

Third, 84 disinfectant and toilet cleaners cannot be mixed together. The mixture of the two produces chlorine gas, which may raise the risk of poisoning.

Fourth, alcohol-based disinfectants cannot be used for air disinfection. Alcohol has little effect on air disinfection but may cause danger.

另外，再提醒居民几点消毒的误区：第一，洗衣液当中加84或者加其他消毒液，几乎没有什么消毒效果。第二，我们一般衣服消毒采用浸泡方式的消毒，所以往衣服上面喷消毒剂几乎没有什么效果，还可能引发一些安全的事故。第三，家庭常用的84和洁厕灵不能混用。这两者混用以后产生化学反应，会生成氯气，可能引发中毒的风险。第四，酒精类消毒剂，不能用于空气的消毒，酒精对于空气的消毒几乎没有效果，反而可能引发一些安全的事故。

Expert from Nanjing CDC talks about home disinfection

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