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Scientists in Italy have created a device that they claim could be used to make indoor spaces safer by using a laser to kill coronavirus particles.
The International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) in Trieste and Eltech K-Laser’s invention forces air through a sterilisation chamber that pulverises viruses and bacteria with a laser beam filter in less than 50 milliseconds, reports Reuters.
I thought lasers were more for a shaman rather than a doctor but I have had to change my mind. The device proved able to kill the viruses in less than 50 milliseconds.
Health officials in Thailand said they will speed up vaccinations of the elderly and medically vulnerable as the country reported its third successive day of record deaths (see 06:24)
Reuters reports:
Health authorities had initially aimed to vaccinate those groups first, but supplies were diverted to factory workers, communities with big outbreaks, and the population of the island of Phuket ahead of this week’s reopening to foreign tourists.
“We have to vaccinate at least 50% of the two groups by the end of July,” senior health official Sopon Mekton told a briefing, referring to the elderly and those with underlying conditions.
Read the original article at The Guardian