The government warns people that not to use alcoholic based hand sanitizers while lightening candles, diyas or while doing any firework because it can be very harmful as they are highly inflammable.
Indian Army also appealed to their people that don’t use Alcohol based hand sanitizers while performing any firework or even while using match sticks.
Like Pakistani PM Imran khan, Indian PM Narendra Modi is also appealing to the public for maintaining social distance and don’t use alcoholic hand sanitizers.
Most of the heath experts said that it is very harmful to burn fire when you used Alcohol based sanitizers because they are inflammable and can easily burn your skin if you used sanitizers before burning fire. They also says that hand sanitizers can burn if you go near to fire as well.
Mostly women applied hand sanitizers and then start cooking and when they burn fire on stove, there hand caught fire due to alcoholic sanitizers, they used before burning stove.
So, kindly don’t use alcoholic hand sanitizers before lightening candles, diyas, matchsticks or any other fire based item.