NEW DELHI : The IIT Kanpur has achieved another feat in the fight against coronavirus. Scientists at the IIT-K have come up with a corona killer box that will sanitize all essential commodities that are brought into homes from outside.
Vegetables, fruits, sugar, milk, pulses, mobiles, rupees and keys etc. can be sanitized in the box within minutes. The ultraviolet rays released from this can kill the bacteria and viruses in objects within minutes.
The sensor-based box also has an alarm which can be set for a specified period of time. Prof J Rajkumar of the mechanical engineering department who led the team with Shivam Sachan and Ashok Prajapati, said, "This box has several ultraviolet lights, which range between 240 and 260 nanometers.