US President Donald Trump said, at his daily media briefing on Thursday, that scientists should explore whether inserting light or disinfectant into the bodies of people infected with the new coronavirus might help them clear the disease.
"Is there a way we can do something like that by injection, inside, or almost a cleaning?" he said.
"It would be interesting to check that."
"This is one of the most dangerous and idiotic suggestions made so far in how one might actually treat Covid-19," said Paul Hunter, a professor of medicine at Britain's University of East Anglia.
He said injecting disinfectants would likely kill anyone who tried it.
Meanwhile, Dettol has urged people not to use its disinfectant in the suggested manner, newspapers in the UK reported.
