As coronavirus (Covid-19) spreads its footprint across the nation, students from premier academic institutes have joined the battle to beat the invisible enemy. Several innovations have come up at various IITs to deal with the growing crisis.
IIT Bhubaneswar has designed a safe and multi-surface sanitiser using UVC light for the disinfection of devices.
"You can place an infected object into the chamber and once it gets exposed to ultraviolet light, the device would be disinfected within 15 minutes," said Prof RV Raja Kumar, Director, IIT, Bhubaneswar, speaking about the device.
He added that the university has developed the chamber