After Trump's remarks, Lysol maker says products shouldn’t be consumed

After US President Donald Trump's remarks, company that makes Lysol and Dettol has said that their products should not be administered into the human body.

"As a global leader in health and hygiene products, we must be clear that under no circumstance should our disinfectant products be administered into the human body (through injection, ingestion or any other route)," the company said in a statement.

This comes after Trumps remarks where he said, "And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in one minute. Is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning ... it would be interesting to check that," Trump said. "It sounds interesting to me," he added.

Trump had said that the US “had no choice” but to pour trillions of dollars into fighting the coronavirus pandemic, adding that “this was an attack… this wasn’t the flu”.

“This was an attack. This wasn’t just… This wasn’t the flu, by the way,” The Hill news website quoted Trump as saying on Wednesday at a White House press briefing, despite comparing COVID-19 to seasonal influenza before the outbreak reached pandemic proportions. “Nobody’s ever seen anything like this,” he added.

Trump has also decided to suspend his government’s funding to the WHO. The US, until now, had been the biggest donor to the agency, Efe news reported.

“Today I’m instructing my administration to halt funding of the World Health Organization while a review is conducted to assess the World Health Organization’s role in severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus,” Trump announced during a press conference at the White House. Trump justified his decision by using the WHO’s opposition to the closure of borders to combat the spread of the virus. He also blamed the organization for not having acted sooner and for having not only trusted, but also having “praised” the Chinese government.

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