Antiseptics, masks or respirators are a common set of megalopolitan resident who follow recommendations of the World Health Organization during a pandemic. However, the coronavirus is not only transmitted by airborne droplets. It persists on the surfaces of objects for up to 9 hours — on the door handle, a handrail in the subway, an elevator button, the steering wheel of a rented car, and much more. Besides it’s important that social organizations sanitize and sterilize surfaces in public places, and people carry out a wet antibacterial cleaning of the house. The most affordable medication, which can be purchased at any pharmacy, is hydrogen peroxide. A universal antiseptic in its pure form was discovered by the chemist Louis Jacques Thénard in the early XIX century.

Hydrogen peroxide has an antiseptic effect, it is used for treating open wounds. The product is also popular in folk medicine, especially according to the methods of Ivan Neumyvakin, doctor of medical Sciences and an adherent of alternative medicine. This approach involves the use of hydrogen peroxide in dilute dosages for whole body health, including the destruction of viruses. This approach has not been confirmed scientifically, but even today, folk medicine lovers use the drug according to Neumyvakin's recipes.