Coronavirus: Expert shares advice from China on how to kill the virus – key tips

Coronavirus: Expert shares advice from China on how to kill the virus – key tips

Dr Li Li, Clinical AI Researcher and GP, has been updated on China’s response through doing translation work for a coronavirus course based on the first hand experience in China.

As Dr Li Li reports, according to the official guidance published by the National Health Commission in China (the equivalent body to the NHS England), the virus can’t survive if it is exposed to 56 degrees after 30 minutes.

“So in China, the empirical approach is to wash at high temperature of 60 C, for longer than 30 minutes,” she explained.

According to Dr Li Li, dryers on high temperature setting usually generate heat up to 68 C.

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Published at Thu, 19 Mar 2020 04:00:00 +0000