​During recent weeks, it has become distressingly apparent that there is a high level of confusion amongst the general public about which sanitising products are effective against the coronavirus.

Posts on social media, in particular, have often given incorrect advice and many are concerningly unaware that the products they are relying on to protect against infection are actually completely ineffectual against viruses.

The level of understanding is frankly woeful. So one of the leading suppliers of antiviral products to the healthcare sector explains what we need to know.

According to Ross Walker of Clinical Health Technologies: 'Using any sanitiser is a good thing, but many are no more effective than a thorough hand wash with hot water and soap. If you have been using an antibacterial sanitiser to protect yourself against the virus I’m afraid you have been operating under a false sense of security as antibacterial sanitisers are only effective against bacteria, not viruses. Antimicrobial sanitisers however are effective against a wide spectrum of microbes including bacteria, mould, fungi and viruses.

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