Source:dailymail.co.uk
- Qantas gave aircraft extensive 36-hour clean after carrying Wuhan passengers
- The plane’s cabin was sprayed twice with the disinfectant that kills coronavirus
- Items such as pillows, blankets and headphones were disposed of and replaced
Qantas has used hospital-grade cleaning solution capable of stopping sexually transmitted diseases to clean planes carrying people from Wuhan.
Qantas flew three planes carrying passengers from the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak back to Australia.
The airline has stepped up their cleaning efforts in a bid to make sure their future commercial passengers were at minimal risk.
Qantas crews gave the Boeing 747 an extensive 36-hour clean before it resumed its typical flight schedule.
This included all seats, arm rests, tray tables, overhead baggage compartments, walls and floors.
Qantas used Viraclean to clean the aircraft, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
Viraclean is a medical grade disinfectant that has been proven to kill germs of herpes, E coli, hepatitis B and salmonella.
Items such as pillows, blankets and headphones were removed, quarantined and disposed off before they were replaced with new version.
Qantas planes also have HEPA filters, which are used in hospital operating theatres and replace air in cabins every three to five minutes.
This means the air is cleaner than in most forms of public transport.
The cleaning procedures used by Qantas exceeded the ones they had in place for the SARS crisis and is developed by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority.
Four flights – including one rerouted through New Zealand – have brought home Australians trapped in Wuhan following the outbreak.
Three of them were Qantas flights.
Those people were taken to Christmas Island and the Manigurr-ma Village at Howard Springs, an old mining camp about 30km from Darwin, for a 14-day quarantine.
Australians who were on the cruise ship off of Japan – Diamond Princess – returned to Darwin last week on a Qantas flight.
Some of those people have since left their quarantine and have gone back to daily life.