Shoppers had insisted they'd seen claims on the anti-bacterial spray's bottle that it could destroy "cold viruses (human coronavirus and RSV)". "RB has become aware of speculation about Dettol products and the novel 2019-nCoV coronavirus," the statement reads. "Our products have been tested against other coronaviruses (such as MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV) and have been found to kill those." RB is continuing to work to understand the virus and test Dettol's effectiveness against it "once health authorities make the strain available". But Paul Kellam, professor of virus genomics at Imperial College London told The Sun: "I would not think Dettol has been tested for activity against the 2019-nCoV.

Source: Daily Mirror February 02, 2020 10:18 UTC