Maputo — Mozambican Health Minister Armindo Tiago on Friday declared that his ministry is opposed to the use of disinfection passages (also known as disinfection tunnels) in the fight against the coronavirus that causes the Covid-19 respiratory diseases.
People walk through a disinfection passage and receive a spray of chemicals which is supposed to destroy the virus. The passages were first used in China, and some extraordinary claims were made for their effectiveness. Thus in February the Chinese news agency Xinhua claimed that a disinfection passage in Shanghai killed 99 per cent of viruses within 20 seconds.
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