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COVID-19 Sanitising tunnels operationalised at Srinagar

Published on : Thursday 09-04-2020

The chemical used for spraying  Quaternary Ammonium Chloride (QAC)  is the most effective one to contain spread of the virus.

April 2020 – The Srinagar Municipal Corporation (SMC) recently installed and operationalised its first decontamination and sanitation tunnel at a hospital here in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Junaid Azim Mattu said. The decontamination and sanitisation tunnel, manufactured and commissioned by the SMC, was installed at the entry of the Chest Diseases Hospital a designated COVID-19 hospital here, he said. The Mayor said he plans to have 200 such tunnels installed across the city in the next few weeks. "This will be our biggest biological barrier against coronavirus," he added. He said the chemical used for spraying – Quaternary Ammonium Chloride (QAC) – is the most effective one to contain spread of the virus. Mattu said these tunnels which in the first phase would be installed at all hospitals across the city were manufactured by the mechanical engineers at the SMC who had planned them and other equipment almost two months ago.

"We assembled this and other machines and chemicals within a month. We started to assemble this before the lockdown, maybe two months ago. Today, the SMC stands at number one in the country in its COVID-19 response," he said. The tunnel disinfects people by spraying chemicals on every person who goes through it. These types of tunnels have been used in China and Turkey. Reports say similar tunnels for sanitisation have been installed at several places across India.