Corona Virus Fact Check: What is the reality of President Trump's claims of eradicating the virus from disinfectant solution and sunlight?

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US President Donald Trump has questioned whether ultraviolet rays can help people inject antiseptic solutions and treat coronavirus victims.
The BBC's reality check team has been scrutinizing the facts in detail these days.
The first claim
"I have seen this antiseptic work in a minute. And we can do this by injecting into the body, or even cleansing the inside out. It can do a tremendous job when it reaches the inside of the lungs.
President Trump has suggested that injecting patients with the virus with an antiseptic solution may help treat the virus.
On the surface, the virus can be killed with a spray of disinfectant solution, but this is only possible when the virus is on an object or surface. It is not known what happens when it enters the human body.
Taking or injecting antibiotics increases the risk of death.
Doctors have appealed to people to refrain from taking or injecting antibiotics, citing fears that people will use it wisely and that it could lead to death.
Rob Chilcott, a professor of toxicology at the University of Hartfordshire, said: There is a fear of it happening, in which there is a possibility of a very horrible death.
According to him, "it will not affect the viral particles inside the cells."
Rect Bancaser, a company that manufactures antiseptic solutions such as lysol and detox, has issued a statement following President Trump's statement that "under no circumstances and in any way should our antiseptic products enter the human body." Let it go
The second claim
"I said you can put light inside the body, you can do it through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you're going to test it too. Then we'll see, but the idea of ​​light, how it kills something in a minute, is a big deal. '
President Trump also suggested that coronavirus patients could be eradicated by exposure to "ultraviolet rays or very bright light".
There is some evidence that viruses on the surface of the earth usually die quickly from sunlight. However, we do not yet know how long and to what extent they will have to be exposed to ultraviolet rays to have some effect.
Again, be clear that this is only for infected objects and surfaces, not what happens when the virus enters your body.
Once the virus is transmitted inside your body, the ultraviolet rays will not affect your skin in any way.
"Ultraviolet rays and high temperatures are known to kill the virus," said Dr Penny Ward, a professor of pharmaceutical medicine at King's College London. However, neither sitting in the sun nor excessive heat can harm the virus that has spread to the organs inside the patient's body.

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