Recently, a saying has been circulating in the circle of friends: 90% of the new coronavirus is killed by tea in one minute, and 99.9% of the new coronavirus is killed by tea in ten minutes.
Is this statement scientific?
Zhong Wu, a researcher at the National Emergency Prevention and Control Drug Engineering Technology Research Center, who has completed multiple screenings of anti-coronavirus drugs, said that this is only a reference to the preliminary data obtained from a protein binding experiment, and it cannot be directly deduced that tea drinking can still The result of killing the new coronavirus.
Up to now, there is no complete evidence-based evidence such as antiviral data or clinical trial data from in vitro cell level, in vivo animal experiments, and dose relationship to prove that drinking tea alone can prevent or treat new coronavirus infections. We still need to do it strictly. Good personal protection measures.
(Reporter Dong Ruifeng)