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Health Ministry warns against disinfection chambers to reduce Covid-19

A man walks through a disinfecting gate at a shopping mall during the second phase of the movement control order. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, April 15, 2020.

THE Health Ministry has discouraged the use of several disinfection methods requiring people to be sprayed with disinfectant chemicals for 20-30 seconds. Director-general of health Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said evaluations carried out by the ministry’s health technology evaluation division discovered that these methods were inadequate to disinfect a person from contracting the Covid-19 virus.

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