South Africa's Michael Lucas, a PhD student at the University of the Witwatersrand, has developed an award-winning, self-sanitising surface coating that will help to address nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infections, as well as mitigate contamination of food processing plants and public transport surfaces. The Antimicrobial Coating Technology is now in its fifth year of development, with implications of preventing infection beyond COVID-19.
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Millions of people around the world have utilised a WhatsApp helpline originally launched by the South African Department of Health. COVID-19 Connect was designed to deliver ... Read more »
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