China Fights Virus With Ultraviolet Light

[yaesu]

BEIJING (AFP) — Ultraviolet light is being beamed through public buses and elevators in China as the country fights the deadly coronavirus epidemic.

Companies are under pressure to meet strict prevention measures for the virus, which has killed more than 3,100 people in China. Shanghai public transport firm Yanggao has converted a regular cleaning room into a UV light disinfection chamber for buses, cutting a 40-minute process down to just five minutes.

“After the epidemic happened … we were actively searching for a more efficient disinfection method,” said Qin Jin, deputy general manager at Yanggao.

He said that normally the process required the full attention of two staff members, who sprayed disinfectant on surfaces in the bus before wiping them down.

“The problem with this was that it might not reach certain corners,” Qin said.

The group partnered with a technology supplier to set up an ultraviolet cleaning system, and now some of its buses are cleaned by UV rays.

Workers drive one bus at a time into the chamber, which has been equipped with 210 UV tubes, and leave the room before activating the system, bathing the vehicle in a blue-white hue.

Two cleaning rooms have been converted and each can disinfect up to 250 buses a day, Qin said.

With around 1,000 buses needing disinfection daily, the UV system has reduced the amount of overtime and manpower needed for regular public transport disinfection.

https://www.courthousenews.com/china-fights-virus-with-ultraviolet-light/

[WyattKansas]

1. So tRUMP will be using a tanning bed instead of his spray-on orange tan?

King donnie makes himself priority first, because he is the most important person America has ever had.

[crickets]

2. Somebody mentioned this earlier in the week

I think it's great to see large scale efforts to use this type of tech: less materials used overall, less effort required, more reliable coverage to all of the nooks and crannies. Good for them. I hope we start using similar soon.

[Apollo Zeus]

7. also avoids chlorine off-gassing and and other respiratory irritants NT

[Azathoth]

3. At this point, China is the starship Enterprise and we're a leaking canoe

Time to start learning Mandarin.

[yaesu]

4. Considering their population numbers I think they did and excellent job keeping the deaths down. nt

[dweller]

5. i took enough courses in Chinese to pass language reqs for college

when i returned to finish my degree (actually to start over) but i used it
more for courses in my minor (Religion w/focus on Asian religion)
spent 2 years in independent studies with a professor translating ancient
Buddhist text that he had already translated but was looking for confirmation...
sadly, upon graduation, began to gradually forget 90%... don't use it, you lose it
i did retain a few select Buddhist curses that i use at times 😝

✌🏼

[uponit7771]

9. +1

[Kaleva]

6. I installed UV lights in my return ductwork

[Midnight Writer]

8. Why is USA not doing this?

[milestogo]

10. Doesn't that cause the virus to mutate?