Pandemic Cleaning and Disinfecting

While coronavirus pandemic continues to spread, everyone must take action to prevent further transmission and support control measures. As a business owner or the head of your family, you must be proactive when it comes to keeping your home or premise clear from the deadly virus contamination. You can take preventive measures such as pandemic cleaning and disinfecting.

Good hygiene is crucial to creating a safe and healthy home or workplace. A clean environment is necessary for your business to thrive and people to stay healthy. It is also crucial for employees to work together without having to worry about the infectious disease that threatens their life. Pandemic cleaning and disinfecting is a smart solution to prevent and protect everyone against COVID-19.

All you need to know about COVID-19

As of March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a pandemic over a new coronavirus, which causes an illness known as COVID-19. The virus has spread to more than 200 countries, and territories killed more than 83,000 people. The best way to prevent and reduce transmission is to be well informed about the COVID-19, the disease it causes, and how it spreads. A single cell of COVID-19 is only 120 nanometers in diameter. Even so, this tiny particle has turned the world upside down. COVID-19 are first developing in animals before developing in humans.

The virus passes from an animal to a human when a person comes into close contact with an infected animal. Once the infection develops in people, it is spreading through droplets transmitted into the air from:

• coughing
• sneezing

People nearby can take in the droplets through their:

• nose
• mouth
• eyes

The viral particles in these droplets travel quickly to the back of your nasal passages and the mucous membranes in the back of your throat, attaching to a particular receptor in cells, beginning there.

COVID-19 particles have spiked proteins sticking out from their surfaces, and these spikes hook onto cell membranes, allowing the virus’s genetic material to enter the human cell. That genetic material proceeds to “hijack” one metabolism of the cell to multiply and make the virus. As copies of the virus reproduce, they burst out and infect neighbouring cells. The symptoms often start in the back of the throat with a sore throat and a dry cough. The virus then crawls progressively down the bronchial tubes.

When the virus reaches the lungs, their mucous membranes become inflamed. That can damage the alveoli or lung sacs, and they have to work harder to carry out their function of supplying oxygen to the blood that circulates throughout our body and removing carbon dioxide from the blood so that it can be exhaled. The swelling and the impaired flow of oxygen can cause those areas in the lungs to fill with fluid, pus, and dead cells. Pneumonia, an infection in the lung, can occur (William Schaffner, 2020).

According to the WHO, signs of COVID-19 infection include:

• a low-grade fever that gradually increases in temperature
• having a cough that gets more severe over time
• shortness of breath and breathing difficulties

These symptoms may become more severe in some people. Call emergency medical services if you or someone you care for have any of the following symptoms:

• trouble breathing
• blue lips or face
• persistent pain or pressure in the chest
• confusion
• excessive drowsiness

The period within which the symptoms would appear is 2 to 14 days. Chinese health authorities believe the virus can be transmitted before symptoms appear. Those at the highest risk of infection are persons who have had prolonged, unprotected close contact with a patient with:

• symptomatic
• confirmed COVID-19
• live in or have recently been to areas with the sustained transmission.

There is no vaccine for COVID-19. However, most people do recover. Getting early care from a healthcare provider can make the disease less dangerous. Seek immediate medical help if you think you have the symptoms. Your doctor will recommend appropriate treatment based on your symptoms.

Pandemic Cleaning and Disinfectant Services

If you learn that someone who is infected with COVID-19 has been in your home or premise, you must take prompt action to protect everyone around you. You must eliminate the virus from your space. As was noted previously, a person infected with this virus in your area can shed millions of coronavirus particles, and it only takes a few particles to affect you and the people around you.

Two essential facts highlight the need to hire professional pandemic cleaning services. First, you need to eliminate COVID-19 from your place to protect the people around you. No matter how diligent you may be in attempting to remove all the viruses, a layperson doesn’t have the resources needed to accomplish that goal. Second, by trying to undertake pandemic cleanup on your own, you are likely to infect yourself with the virus.

ATALIAN takes on a more active role in making sure that our customers’ safety and needs are a high priority. We are ready to provide individualized customer care by responding, following-up, and placing importance on your requirements as promptly as we possibly could. We strive to set the industry standard in industrial cleaning, maintenance, and operations. To do so, we provide the most efficient and trusted solutions while taking care of the health and safety of our customers and employees.

Our professional cleaning team understands how to undertake comprehensive, thorough COVID-19 cleanup without causing cross-contamination, which offers peace of mind to an establishment for infection control. We utilize medical-grade cleaning and sanitizing agents that can eliminate the virus. Our advanced equipment ensures full surface coverage in your area. For extra protection, we use an antimicrobial coating across all contacted surfaces to prevent bacteria and germ growth, thus reducing recontamination.

There are three types of pandemic cleaning services offered by ATALIAN:

1. Wipe all frequently touched areas (e.g., lift buttons, handrail, doorknobs, armrests, seat backs, table, air/light controls)
2. Thorough misting treatment for the work area.
3. Disinfectant cleaning of the carpet.

To minimize the risk of infection for our customers on customer sites, we provide:

• Chemicals (EPA registered disinfectants)
• White Mop Heads
• Disposable Towels (Yellow)
• Disposable Face masks
• Disposable surgical gloves / Worksafe Disp. Powder Free Nitrile Gloves – 12inch Size L (100pcs/box)
• Tongs

How Is It Done?

Step 1: Before the space sanitation takes place, people and pets (if any) must be evacuated from the area of treatment. This is a routine precaution.

Step 2: A highly trained cleaning operator with proper equipment will commence surface sanitation with the thorough wiping of all high-contact areas such as table surfaces, doorknobs, filing cabinet, office equipment, and handles with the sanitizing solution.

Step 3: Space sanitation using the solution in the form of misting will commence after that to deliver the particles at hard-to-reach corners, walls, and floor surfaces.

Step 4: The enclosed treatment area will be exposed to the sanitizing solution for a minimum duration of two hours before the ventilation process takes place.

Studies suggest that coronaviruses (including preliminary information on the COVID-19 disease) may persist on surfaces for a few hours or up to several days. This may vary under different conditions (e.g., type of surface, temperature, or humidity of the environment). The good news is, disinfectants can kill it.

COVID-19 outbreak is a dire situation, and we understand that the health and safety of yourself, your family, and employees are on the line. Protect yourself and others from infection by washing your hands frequently, practising good respiratory hygiene and disinfecting often touched surfaces. Don’t take any chances. Let our professionals do it for you. Call us or send us an inquiry now if you want to learn more about the infection control services.