The coronavirus is spreading rapidly and people are using hand sanitizers to clean their hands from germs. These hand sanitizers, at least the ones recommended by the World Health Organization and the US Center for Disease Control, contain 60% or more of ethanol (ethyl alcohol) in them as the main active ingredient for killing germs and viruses. Is it permissible for us to use these hand sanitizers, and can we consider our hands to be clean and not impure or najis after using them?
Ethanol alcohol is considered pure, hence there is no problem in using it as a sanitizer.