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Published 16 Mar, 2020 08:12am

Cleaning product makers race to labs to bolster coronavirus claims

According to Reuters, as global makers of household cleaners race to pitch their products as coronavirus killers, one major company, Reckitt Benckiser, may have a leg up on the competition.

The maker of Lysol and Dettol disinfectants said it has already obtained a strain of the novel coronavirus, known as SARS-CoV-2, from an independent lab and plans to use the strain to test whether its products kill the virus.

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