A car burst into flames in Maryland after a driver used hand sanitizer while smoking a cigarette.
According to officials, the fire was caused by the “driver using hand sanitizer and smoking a cigarette,” which he cites as a “bad combo in an unventilated area like a car.”
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The car is badly damaged and cannot be recovered, Fire control officials took the driver to a nearby hospital for treatment of minor burns and injuries.
An Indian official accidentally drank hand sanitizer mistaking it for a bottle of water at a public meeting.
According to details, Ramesh Pawar was at a budget committee hearing in Mumbai on Wednesday when he sat down and took a sip from a bottle placed at the table.
He took a sip but a person around him hurried to warn him that it was hand sanitiser. The official instantly noticed his mistake and spat out the sanitiser while others at the meeting rushed to help him and gave him a bottle of water.
In another such incident, at least 12 children were hospitalized after they were given hand sanitiser drops instead of oral polio vaccine drops in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
From wearing masks to cleaning hands with soap and water or sanitiser every hour, people are trying every possible way to protect themselves from falling sick amid the coronavirus outbreak.
With this leading to a shortage of sanitisers not just in Pakistan but also across the globe, videos showing rather desperate attempts by people to stay healthy in time of COVID-19, have started doing rounds over the internet.
One such video was recently shared by journalist Naila Inayat, who wrote, “When you think no one is watching you.”
The 32-second clip is a CCTV footage from March 27 of an ATM. The video shows a man taking out money from the machine. As soon as he puts the money in his pocket, he spots the bottle of hand sanitiser. Instead of pumping it in his hands, he puts the entire bottle inside his jacket and walks out of the vestibule.
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It, however, wasn’t the only video of its sort.
Here’s another video shared by a user on Facebook last week.
Meanwhile, similar videos have gone viral from across the border too.
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We have all been scouring stores looking for hand sanitizer in every market and pharmacy and it’s nowhere to be found. If you do find it, the price is incredibly high and doesn’t feel worth the cost.
The main ingredient in hand sanitizer is rubbing alcohol, which is easily available in pharmacies. Experts suggest the hand sanitizer should have 60-70 % of rubbing alcohol for it to be effective in killing germs.
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The following is a tried and tested recipe for a homemade hand sanitizer. Aloe vera is also easily available and buying the plant might be even cheaper.
