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@#Globally, COVID-19 outbreak is a major social issue in the current trend. SARS-CoV2 is a novel coronavirus causing Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in human and it is spreading rapidly among human population. In order to prevent SARS-CoV2 infection and managing this corona disease, WHO formula based alcoholic hand sanitisers are being widely used as one of the primary preventive agent and the demand is increasing worldwide. Herbal extracts and/or their phytochemicals have been considered as natural sources for formulating herbal hand sanitizers as alternative to alcoholic products. In this correspondence, we have described about the probable mechanistic action of herbal bioactives to fight against COVID-19 virus. Understanding of mechanistic action of bioactives could be useful to formulate herbal hand sanitizers and the products have high demand in the global sanitizer market.
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Objective To determine the main components of SZ herbal disinfectant and to observe its inactivation efficiency on microorganism in suspension. Methods The spectrophotometer examination, neutralizer screening trial, bacteria count trial, phage plaque count trial and cells infection test had been used to determine contents of ursolic acid in SZ herbal disinfectant and the disinfection efficacy. Results The ursolic acid contents in original SZ disinfectant reached 436.43 ?g/ml and decreased by 8.07% after a year of deposit. Treated by disinfectant for 5 min and 1∶5 dilution solution for 10 min, the Staphylococcus aureus (SA) and Escherichia coli (EC) in suspension could be killed with the efficiency of 100%. Treated with SZ disinfectant and the dilution solution (1∶50) respectively, the Candida albicans could be killed with the efficiency of 90.97% and 51.10%. Treated with the dilution solution for 3 min, the f2 bacteriophage and PV could be reduced by 100% and 9.00 log. Conclusion With the main component of ursolic acid, the SZ herbal disinfectant is a kind of natural disinfectant. It has a satisfactory inactivation efficacy on bacterial vegetative form and virus.