China advises cavin crew to wear diapers
Flight attendants at Chinese airline companies have been advised to wear disposable nappies to avoid catching the novel coronavirus.
Cabin crews should not use the toilet barring 'special circumstances' during flights from countries and regions with high infection rates, according to the Chinese civil aviation authority.
Crew members must also wear full personal protective equipment, including medical-standard masks, gloves, goggles, protective clothing, and shoe covers.
China's civil aviation authority recently issued a 38-page detailed guideline to prevent coronavirus infections.
It said that in countries or regions where more than 500 people in every 10 lakh are affected by corona, the crew of the passenger aircraft operating on the route must abide by these instructions. This guideline applies to both domestic and international routes. In addition to wearing diapers and avoid using the toilet, the workers have to follow several more instructions.
These include cabin crew protective masks, two-layer disposable rubber gloves, goggles, caps, protective cloths, and shoe covers.
However, the pilot and co-pilot (flight crew) do not have to wear diapers. They just have to wear masks and goggles.
It has also been instructed to divide the cabin of the aircraft into several zones with covering. These include "clean space, safe place, passenger seating and quarantine space." And the last three rows of aircraft will be emergency quarantine space.
In Britain, scientists advising the Government warned in August that public toilets can become crowded and are likely to harbour the virus on numerous cold surfaces.
Transmission of the virus through faeces and urine is also a risk, the team said but admitted more research is needed to confirm this.The deadly coronavirus first spread from Wuhan, China last year and now it's affecting over 218 countries and territories. Source: https://www.daily-bangladesh.com
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