Coronavirus

How does UVC light destroy germs? The high energy from short wavelength UV-C light is absorbed into the cellular RNA and DNA, damaging nucleic acids and preventing microorganisms from infecting and reproducing. UV-C is strongly absorbed by RNA and DNA bases which leads to photodimerisation, the damaging of the molecular structure. This results in virus …

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The start of 2020 seemed similar to any other year we’ve lived through. Very few of us could have anticipated what the months ahead would actually hold for the entire world. The rapid and unprecedented spread of coronavirus, and the consequent outbreak of deaths and illnesses caused by the resultant Covid-19 disease, has meant that …

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