23/04/2020
How to prevent the spread of COVID-19 while doing laundry: Use your detergent of choice
Wash contaminated clothes and linens as you normally would, but wash using the warmest appropriate water setting for the items and dry items completely. Bleach may help inactivate viral microbes in the wash. So if you’re washing whites and light colours, you could add bleach to the load. Or you could use a detergent that contains a color-safe bleach if it’s appropriate for the fabric. It’s the combination of detergent, warm water, and physical agitation in the rinse and spin cycles that removes, inactivates, and washes away viral microbes. Once the washing is done, using a dryer may be better than hanging the clothes to dry because the heat may also help inactivate any viral microbes. In addition, dry fabrics are less likely to transfer germs than wet ones.
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