China has today started disinfecting and isolating used banknotes in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19) that has killed 1,527 people. Pictured is a woman spraying banknotes during a previous quarantine
Daily Mail: China disinfects BANK NOTES and quarantines them for 14 days as Beijing announces 143 new coronavirus deaths and 2,641 additional cases while death toll hits 1,527
* Chinese banks use ultraviolet light then seal and store the cash for up to 14 days
* The banks have been urged to provide new banknotes to customers if possible
* Central bank made an emergency issuance of four billion yuan in new notes
China has today started disinfecting and isolating used banknotes in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19) that has killed 1,527 people.
Banks use ultraviolet light or high temperatures to disinfect yuan bills, then they seal and store the cash for seven to 14 days - depending on the severity of the outbreak in a particular region - before recirculating them.
The virus, which has infected 66,492 people in China and spread to more than two dozen other countries, has sparked a rush to disinfect public places and minimise contact between people.
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WNU Editor: I was wondering about this a week ago. Money can be a transmitter of disease. For the latest on the coronavirus outbreak, go here .... Latest on coronavirus spreading in China and beyond (Reuters).
Update: A long but good blog post on the coronavirus outbreak .... Wuhan Coronavirus—WUWT Update (WUWT).
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The inverse square law applies to germicidalultraviolet as it does to light: the killing power decreases as the distance from the lampsincreases. The average bacterium will be killed in ten seconds at a distance of six inches from the lamp in an American Ultraviolet Germicidal Fixture.
Does anyone know if UV light has the same effect if held 6" from a mad woman (who may be or not be my wife)?
this is called money laundering
As long as its short wave UV and not long wave, it will have the desired germicidal affect...
Unknown.
If your wife or maybe not your wife's name is Hillary its probably worth a try. Good luck with it Bill!
anon- nice try but FAIL
Corona virus is not your average bacterium. Some tests showed Ncov stayed alive on door knobs for 1 MONTH. I think this things got away from the level 4 lab in (wait for it) Wuhan.
Did coronavirus originate in Chinese government laboratory? Scientists believe killer disease may have begun in research facility 300 yards from Wuhan wet fish market
Beijing-sponsored South China University of Technology concludes that 'the killer coronavirus probably originated from a laboratory in Wuhan'
It points to research on bats and respiratory diseases carried by the animals at the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and the Wuhan Institute of Virology
WCDC is just 300 yards from the seafood market and is adjacent to the hospital
Published: 08:22 EST, 16 February 2020 | Updated: 11:00 EST, 16 February 2020
Chinese scientists believe the deadly coronavirus may have started life in a research facility just 300 yards from the Wuhan fish market.
A new bombshell paper from the Beijing-sponsored South China University of Technology says that the Wuhan Center for Disease Control (WHCDC) could have spawned the contagion in Hubei province.
'The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus,' penned by scholars Botao Xiao and Lei Xiao claims the WHCDC kept disease-ridden animals in laboratories, including 605 bats.
It also mentions that bats - which are linked to coronavirus - once attacked a researcher and 'blood of bat was on his skin.'
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