WASHINGTON 24 Apr (ANA) - Doctors and epidemiologists have reacted with alarm to comments from US President Donald Trump that injecting disinfectant and exposure to ultraviolet rays could help people with the coronavirus.

"Trump is absolutely wrong and irresponsible," Dr Eugene Gu, whose laboratory is involved in coronavirus testing, wrote on Twitter, adding "Clorox, Tide Pods and Lysol will kill coronavirus. No question about it. But if you are infected then the coronavirus is inside your cells. If you use any of those disinfectants to kill the coronavirus in your own cells then you'll die right along with the coronavirus." 

He first mused on whether light could be brought inside the body before moving onto the subject of disinfectant.

If it could "knock out the virus in a minute, one minute" Trump pondered, "Is there a way we can do something like that by injection, inside, or almost a cleaning? It would be interesting to check that."(ANA)

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