Abstract
COVID‐19 pandemic issues are discussed in chemical science intuition which highlights the direct role of chemistry to the ongoing global pandemic by covering chemical preventive measures. Chemical preventive measures such as soap, water, hand sanitizer, disinfectants and personal protection equipment (PPE) were reviewed as the only available options in the arsenal to fight against COVID‐19 despite the availability of COVID – 19 vaccines. The present review focused on the mode of action for both sanitizer and soap water to inactivate the virus and their effectiveness.
Highlights
COVID‐19 (Corona Virus Disease 2019) is an infectious disease caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome‐ coronavirus‐2 (SARS‐CoV‐2)
COVID‐19 pandemic issues are discussed in chemical science intuition which highlights the direct role of chemistry to the ongoing global pandemic by covering chemical preventive measures
The chemistry and the chemical science preventive approach to fight COVID‐19 pandemic cannot be swept under the carpet
Summary
COVID‐19 (Corona Virus Disease 2019) is an infectious disease caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome‐ coronavirus‐2 (SARS‐CoV‐2). It has developed into a global pandemic rapidly disrupting modern society on a large scale that most of the people in the world have never witnessed in their lifetime [1] [2] [3] [4]. Human to human rapid spreading has been observed [5] This novel corona virus is very close to earlier reported coronaviruses SARS‐CoV‐1, MERS‐CoV (Middle East respiratory syndrome) with regard to causing severe acute respiratory distress [6]. The virus causes severe disease with pneumonia and acute respiratory distress and disorder, and has already infected millions of people, resulting in millions of deaths and the figures are continuously increasing with people‘s lives at risk and the global economy being greatly affected. The World Health Organization (WHO) temporarily named this pathogen 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) [2]
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