With the rising number of COVID-19 cases across the world, countries continue to look for ways to contain the novel coronavirus before the situation gets worse. Some issued a complete lockdown and mass disinfections to contain the spread. But according to some disease specialists, mass disinfections can lead to more health problems still.
Migrant labourers and their families were forced bathe in a chemical solution upon their entry in Bareilly, India.
A worker disinfects playground equipment inside a kindergarten as the students’ returning has been delayed in Ganzhou, Jiangxi province, China.
A municipality worker sprays disinfectant on a relative of a coronavirus disease victim during a funeral in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Volunteers from Red Cross prepare to spray disinfectant inside a closed school in Jakarta,
Indonesia.
A worker inspects a disinfection chamber installed on a sidewalk in Escobedo, on the outskirts of Monterrey, Mexico.
A municipal worker wearing a protective outfit passes by a tanning studio while spraying chemicals in the Romanian capital of Bucharest.A Jammu Municipal Corporation staff sprays disinfectant as a precautionary measure against COVID-19 outside a shopping mall.Members of the armed forces disinfect the entrance of a hospital in Brasilia, Brazil.Measures taken to contain the fast-spreading virus which has killed over 37,000 people globally have been criticised by disease specialists and called a health hazard and a waste of time and resources.
A municipal worker sprays disinfectant on migrant workers before they board a bus to return to their villages, during a 21-day nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of coronavirus disease.