(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Chinese disease control expert: Excessive disinfection in the community is not only unnecessary, it also pollutes the environment and damages health
China News Agency, Beijing, May 6th (Li Jingze): Leader of the Central Guidance Group's Prevention and Control Group in Wuhan City, Environmental Hygiene and Disinfection Expert Task Force, Deputy Director of the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Environmental and Health-related Product Safety Institute, and Researcher Yao Xiaoyuan According to Beijing, as long as the community disinfection is carried out according to the requirements of the national plan, the disinfection effect can be guaranteed. Excessive disinfection is not only unnecessary, but also pollutes the environment and causes damage to health.
The joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council held a press conference on the same day, inviting representatives of disease control workers to respond to media questions.
Yao Xiaoyuan said that disinfection is an important means to cut off the spread of new coronary pneumonia, so some people also call disinfectants "virus killers." But how to do good disinfection, especially how to achieve scientific disinfection, precise disinfection, and effective disinfection, is not an easy task.
"First of all, disinfection is a technical activity. For different places and different scenarios, different disinfection methods need to be used, and accurate strategies and classification guidance are required." Yao Xiaoyuan said. In addition, disinfection is still a physical activity. There are 20 liters of disinfection water in the disinfection bucket carried by the disinfection staff, that is, 40 kg, plus the weight of the bucket itself and the weight of the spray device, it is more than 50 kg. Each disinfection operation time is about 4 hours.
"Disinfection is a need for disease prevention work, but there are many misunderstandings in disinfection in actual work." Yao Xiaoyuan said, in this way, for disease control personnel, how to use professional guidance and technical guidance to ensure that disinfection is scientifically effective. Important.
Yao Xiaoyuan said that some residents in the community pay special attention to disinfection. If they do not smell the disinfectant in the corridor, they will not be at ease and report to the property. In order to take care of the emotions of the residents, the community staff also played a soothing role, expanding the disinfectant concentration to 10 times, which caused serious damage to the eyes and respiratory tract of the disinfectants, causing redness and congestion.
"Excessive disinfection is not only unnecessary, but also pollutes the environment and causes damage to health." Yao Xiaoyuan said. (Finish)