{"id":8236,"date":"2021-01-14T08:53:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T08:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/health-environment\/article\/3117741\/hong-kong-fourth-coronavirus-wave-vast-majority"},"modified":"2021-01-14T08:53:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T08:53:35","slug":"hong-kong-covid-19-fourth-wave-vast-majority-of-disinfectant-products-less-effective-far-pricier-than-traditional-virus-killing-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/14\/hong-kong-covid-19-fourth-wave-vast-majority-of-disinfectant-products-less-effective-far-pricier-than-traditional-virus-killing-methods\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Covid-19 fourth wave: vast majority of disinfectant products \u2018less effective, far pricier\u2019 than traditional virus-killing methods"},"content":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s consumer watchdog has found that 80 per cent of disinfectant products proving popular during the Covid-19 pandemic are less effective in killing bacteria and viruses than the far-cheaper, traditional method of using diluted bleach.The Consumer Council found only three of the 15 multi-purpose disinfectants analysed performed as well in consistently eliminating pathogens as simply using alcohol or bleach-based solutions.That was the case even though the branded products were up to 20\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/health-environment\/article\/3117741\/hong-kong-fourth-coronavirus-wave-vast-majority\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong\u2019s consumer watchdog has found that 80 per cent of disinfectant products proving popular during the Covid-19 pandemic are less effective in killing bacteria and viruses than the far-cheaper, traditional method of using diluted bleach.The Consu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8237,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8236\/revisions\/8237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}