Scrub for your life!

Transit officials gave showed off the MTA’s coronavirus cleaning process at the Michael J. Quill Bus Depot in Manhattan on Friday.

Wearing white hazmat suits, face shields and mop-like gloves, the workers sprayed Lemon-Quat disinfectant and scrubbed every seat, pole, fare machine, window and wall in dozens of buses stored at the depot, the MTA’s largest.

With hundreds of New Yorkers quarantined to stop the spread of coronavirus, transit officials said Tuesday that the crews would disinfect trains and buses every 72 hours and other frequently touched surfaces once per day.

As of Friday morning, the MTA said its workers had cleaned every single bus and train in the transit system, along with all 740 subway and commuter rail stations.

Among the “commonly touched” surfaces getting daily scrubs: ticket vending machines, turnstiles, emergency gates, handrails, station benches, commuter train bathrooms and the agency’s new fingerprint timeclocks.

“We’re making sure that our bus operating compartment [is] disinfected twice a week, then we’re going on to every handrail, grab rail, windowsill, seat in the bus,” MTA bus boss Craig Cipriano told reporters. “Everywhere our customers could potentially have contact with.”

Lawrence Garbuz, the state’s second confirmed coronavirus patient, may have commuted into the city via Metro-North, ABC News said Tuesday.

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