Chinese researchers develop device to inactivate COVID-19

Chinese researchers develop device to inactivate COVID-19

The technology has passed an expert panel review and is set to be applied in cold chain food packaging disinfection

IANSUpdated: Wednesday, March 31, 2021, 08:48 PM IST
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Staff members do nucleic acid tests at a lab in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, Feb. 13, 2020. | (Xinhua/File)

Guangzhou: Chinese researchers have developed a set of equipment that could inactivate coronavirus with electron beam irradiation. The technology has passed an expert panel review and is set to be applied in cold chain food packaging disinfection, informed in a press conference held in south China's Shenzhen City on Monday.

China General Nuclear Power Corporation, Tsinghua University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen National Clinical Research Center for Infectious.

Diseases and the Third People's Hospital of Shenzhen were involved in the project, the Xinhua news agency reported.

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