17/04/2020
You have probably seen numerous adverts on social media made by unscrupulous local carpet cleaning companies claiming to be able to kill the Coronavirus COVID-19.
β οΈPLEASE NOTE THIS IS SERIOUS MISINFORMATION.β οΈ
COVID-19 is an enveloped virus, and at present there are NO KNOWN products certified to break that envelope. A professional cleaning company or chemical supplier/manufacturer should NEVER make this guarantee.
Regardless of what chemicals may be able to destroy the Coronavirus, we are not aware of a product that will kill the new strain COVID-19 that has the legal backing. Scientific tests on COVID-19 are no doubt underway but are in the very early stages of testing.
Please donβt be misled by claims that cannot be backed up scientifically. THESE CLEANING COMPANIES ARE JUST OUT TO PROFIT FROM THE PANIC. They will not have completed the relevant infection control & prevention training courses, will unlawfully not carry safety data sheets for the outdated chemicals they use and most certainly will not be able to provide technical data for the test results to back up their claims.
We are NHS approved contractors and our staff are trained for decontamination, we are not all of a sudden 'experts', we genuinely understand infection control. These are tough times but we feel being honest will assist us for the future.
We can only recommend to follow official guidelines from GOV.UK and nhs.uk. We are also following the technical cleaning advice from The British Institute of Cleaning Science.