A Food and Environmental Hygiene Department contractor cleans and disinfects Pei Ho Street Market in the Sham Shui Po district of Hong Kong on July 17, amid a third wave of Covid-19. Photo: AFP

Ria Sinha

Covid-19 hygiene: are we sanitising our way to the next health disaster?

Liberal use of disinfectant may protect us from Covid-19 in the short term, but harm public health in the long run

In the current sanitising frenzy, the ominous threat of antimicrobial resistance has fallen off the world’s agenda

Ria Sinha

Published: 9:15am, 13 Aug, 2020

Updated: 9:28am, 13 Aug, 2020

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A Food and Environmental Hygiene Department contractor cleans and disinfects Pei Ho Street Market in the Sham Shui Po district of Hong Kong on July 17, amid a third wave of Covid-19. Photo: AFP

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Ria Sinha is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong. She trained as an infectious disease scientist at Imperial College London.

Covid-19 hygiene: are we sanitising our way to the next health disaster?

Liberal use of disinfectant may protect us from Covid-19 in the short term, but harm public health in the long run In the current sanitising frenzy, the ominous threat of antimicrobial resistance has fallen off the world’s agenda

Liberal use of disinfectant may protect us from Covid-19 in the short term, but harm public health in the long run

In the current sanitising frenzy, the ominous threat of antimicrobial resistance has fallen off the world’s agenda