Environmental cleaning to prevent COVID-19 infection. A rapid systematic review

Shimabukuro, Patrícia Mitsue Saruhashi; Duarte, Márcio Luí­s; Imoto, Aline Mizusaki; Atallah, Álvaro Nagib; Franco, Eduardo Signorini Bicas; Peccin, Maria Stella; Taminato, Mônica

doi:10.1590/1516-3180.2020.0417.09092020

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“…The possible role of UV irradiation as environmental sterilization adjunct for standard protocols against a wide range of pathogens (viruses and bacteria) or air disinfection method for viruses only was systematically assessed by, respectively, Ramos et al [ 76 ] and Beggs et al [ 77 ]; Sharafi et al [ 78 ] and Shimabukuro et al [ 79 ] focused specifically on SARS-CoV-2.…”

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The efficacy of ultraviolet light-emitting technology against coronaviruses: a systematic review

Chiappa

Frascella

Vigezzi

et al. 2021

Journal of Hospital Infection

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The efficacy of ultraviolet light-emitting technology against coronaviruses: a systematic review

Chiappa

Frascella

Vigezzi

et al. 2021

Journal of Hospital Infection

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“…The majority of them had a good understanding of over-disinfection and 9.4% had a wrong perception that disinfection infrequently touched places was excessive. However, the best way to prevent the spread of the virus in the environment was to encourage cleaning and disinfection in places and surfaces that were touched very frequently [ 30 ].…”

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Associations between Indoor Environmental Quality and Infectious Diseases Knowledge, Beliefs and Practices of Hotel Workers in Wuhan, China

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Liu

Zhang

et al. 2021

IJERPH

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Knowledge, beliefs, and practices regarding infectious diseases are key elements that ensure practitioners’ health and safety. It is important to carry out such a survey in hotels. This study aims to determine the levels of knowledge, beliefs, and practices regarding infectious diseases among practitioners and their associations with the environmental quality of hotels in Wuhan, China. We surveyed infectious disease knowledge, beliefs, and practices of practitioners in 18 hotels and detected these hotels’ environment, including physical factors of temperature, humidity, noise, and the indoor air quality of benzene, toluene, xylene, formaldehyde, CO, CO2, the total count of fungi, aerobic plate count, PM10, and PM2.5. 128 practitioners were included, and 28.9% were male. The questionnaire included knowledge, beliefs, and practices regarding infectious diseases. Our study found moderate levels of knowledge and beliefs, and good health practices. People’s beliefs toward COVID-19 were correlated significantly with their knowledge (p < 0.05). Beliefs and health practices were correlated significantly with environmental quality (p < 0.05). However, the environmental quality was correlated negatively with the classification of hotels. Conclusively, despite the good health practices of practitioners, the knowledge and beliefs toward infectious diseases need to strengthen. Hotels should emphasize health education in practitioners and the improvement of environmental hygiene. Integrating all three components into a comprehensive environmental promotion program is warranted.

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“…Studies of SARS-CoV-2 in toilets have so far been conducted in healthcare environments, which have higher frequency of, and more thorough, cleaning regimens than public toilets (Birgand et al, 2020;Cheng et al, 2020;Chia et al, 2020;D'Accolti et al, 2020;Jiang et al, 2020;Razzini et al, 2020;Santarpia et al, 2020;Shimabukuro et al, 2020;Wan et al, 2021;Ye et al, 2020). Despite this, faecal-derived aerosols in patients' toilets contained most of the detected SARS-CoV-2 in one hospital (Ding et al, 2020).…”

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“…Cleaning and decontamination are critical but while the methods remain fairly standard, the frequency depends upon people-traffic and this is unlikely to be monitored (Amirian, 2020;Shimabukuro et al, 2020;Fitzgerald et al, 2021). Most public toilets are cleaned just once per day; this is not sufficient to protect users in areas reporting rising transmission rates (Carling et al, 2009).…”

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What is the risk of acquiring SARS-CoV-2 from the use of public toilets?

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Hart

et al. 2021

Science of The Total Environment

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Public toilets may act as a contact hub point for SARS-CoV-2 transmission. • All accepted transmission mechanisms for SARS-CoV-2 co-exist in a public toilet. • Faecal and urinary derived aerosols contain viable SARS-CoV-2 virus. • Issues over space, ventilation, frequency of use, cleaning and maintenance compound the transmission risk. • Actions to prevent COVID-19 infection are offered in lieu of supportive scientific evidence.

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Environmental cleaning to prevent COVID-19 infection. A rapid systematic review

Cited by 34 publications

References 20 publications

The efficacy of ultraviolet light-emitting technology against coronaviruses: a systematic review

The efficacy of ultraviolet light-emitting technology against coronaviruses: a systematic review

Associations between Indoor Environmental Quality and Infectious Diseases Knowledge, Beliefs and Practices of Hotel Workers in Wuhan, China

What is the risk of acquiring SARS-CoV-2 from the use of public toilets?

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