can be infected if they touch surfaces or objects that have the virus and then touch their mouths, nose or eyes. Here’s a look at two new contactless designs.THE ‘COVID KEY’Earlier this year, research published in The New England Journal Of Medicine evaluated how long the covid-19 virus could survive on surfaces like cardboard, plastic or copper.
It concluded that “no viable SARS-CoV-2 was measured after 4 hours" on copper. Essentially, the virus didn’t survive for too long on copper surfaces, which can break down a pathogen’s microbial load.So, by leveraging copper’s antimicrobial features, product designers Apoorv Shankar and Yogansh Namdeo created HandKey, a “covid key" that can be used as an extension to perform simple, daily tasks like.