How to clean and disinfect your home During Covid 19 Time

How to clean and disinfect your home During Covid 19 Time

During this covid time, it is very essential to frequently clean and disinfects your home to keep yourself safe from covid. There is a greater chance for you to get this virus from surfaces so it is very important to clean and disinfect your home at least once a day and even if you are not at your home always, you should clean your home because still there is a chance for exposure from items or people coming in from outside.

You may wonder why I am talking like this, believe me, there is a reason behind it according to the latest study it says that the covid virus can stay in the air for up to 4 hours and survive on plastic and stainless steel for up to three days. So you must always clean and disinfect your home to keep it virus free.

 

What are some of the cleaning products that fight against Coronavirus?

There are many cleaning products available on the market but most of them are not effective against coronavirus or covid-19 so first, you should understand which cleaning products kill the covid-19 virus.

There are some internationally approved cleaning and disinfecting products that can kill coronavirus and some of them might be already available in your house like: 

*Isopropyl alcohol

*Disinfectant sprays(there are many disinfectant sprays available on the market choose the best one)

*hydrogen peroxide

*Disinfecting wipes

Using all of these products is not enough to kill the virus you should know the proper disinfection strategies. Most experts suggest that you should let the product remain wet on the floor or on the objects for more than 10 minutes to fully kill the coronavirus causing germs.

If you don’t know to create a disinfection spray you can search on google or on youtube how to create one it’s not that hard as you think.

 

What is the main difference between cleaning and disinfecting?

Cleaning is the process of cleaning the surface in order to remove dirt and disinfecting is usually done to kill the germs and bacteria present in the house

If you want to remove or kill the coronavirus germs simply cleaning is not enough you also need to disinfect.

 

Disinfecting procedures against Coronavirus

I am not saying that you should clean your house and surrounding every hour but you should focus on disinfecting the hot spots in your home once every day.

some of the places you should disinfect every day are given below: -

*Toilets(it is very important to clean toilets every day)

*bathrooms

*mobile phones and tablets 

*laptops and computers

*Door handles 

*dining tables 

*switches in your home

*vehicles

*TV remotes

 

If you don’t have time to do these things every day then you can even contact a disinfection company in your area what I usually do is I hire one of the disinfection companies in Dubai to get the Work done 

If you have a sick covid patient in your home then you have to be very careful while disinfecting the house or apartments

The sick patient should always stay in a separate room with a bathroom or toilet what I mean is that other family members must not use the same bathroom or toilet which is used by the patient and when you are going to clean or disinfect the room you must be very careful and you must not make any contact with the sick patient and experts Recommend that it is better if the sick patient itself clean and disinfect the room himself so in that case, others won’t have any problem