▲ Information on containment facility while instructing the use of disinfectant after urine
Chinese officials are already aware of this possibility, with observations that a new coronavirus or virus can spread not only from the infected person's droplet but also from feces or urine.
According to local news reports, China's `` Wuhan Resident History '' intensive observation facility requires 250 ml of disinfectant solution to be poured into the toilet after 1 hour after each stool or urine has been circulated in the daily living instructions given to new observers. It is.
In fact, next to the toilet in the bathroom in the room is a disinfectant in a large container.
The world's interest in the possibility of spreading the new coronavirus through urine is due to the recent outbreak of a new case of a new coronavirus infection in a male living upstairs of the new coronavirus confirmor in Neigu Autonomous Region, China.
This man has never been out of the house recently.
Some analysts say that the case of Neigu Autonomous Region may indicate that an aerosol containing a virus created when flushing a toilet was transferred through sewer pipes to infect neighboring residents.
In 2003, an apartment in Hong Kong suffered from SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) in a group of 328 people.
Hong Kong officials surveyed the apartment and suspected that an SARS infected person was wearing the toilet and flushing water, forming an aerosol containing the virus and spreading it through a floor drain in the upper house.
However, Volcanic Hospital, Fudan University, China, introduced this information through Weibo (Chinese version of Twitter), adding that although it is reasonable reasoning, it was not recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO).
It is already accepted that the new coronavirus can survive for a certain amount of time even in the urine.
The 3rd People's Hospital in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China, said on Monday (local time) that a new test for coronavirus ribonucleic acid (RNA) was confirmed by a test conducted by the Hospital Liver Disease Research Institute as a stool for patients with new coronavirus.
This means that there is a good chance that there is live new coronavirus in your stool.
Lee Jong-gu, a professor of family medicine at Seoul National University, who served as head of the disease management division, said, “If new corona virus is detected in urine or stool, the new corona can be transmitted not only by the respiratory system but also in other ways.” SARS survived up to 24 hours in urine, 2 days in feces and 4 days in diarrhea. ”
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