UNB :
The invention of a 25-year-old British-Bangladeshi woman has grabbed the attention of the world.
Sadia Khanam has, in fact, developed an antiseptic spray-‘Voltic’-against Covid-19, as the world is still grappling to contain the second outbreak of the pandemic.
‘Voltic’ can kill all kinds of pathogens (viruses, bacteria, fungi etc) on any surface. Spraying just once can make a place free of coronavirus for a fortnight, according to the young inventor whose family migrated to the UK from Sylhet in the 1960s.
Hospitals in the UK say the spray is 100% effective in killing coronavirus.
Moreover, using spray can help reduce the cleaning cost of hospitals by about 70%.
Sadia made the invention while working at a restaurant in the UK. It took her a good 14 months to develop the special spray, with a little technical help from Colin Heigan, a senior scientist based in that country.
Sadia has already received orders worth more than $10 million.
The National Health Service in the UK has been successful in using spray experimentally at various hospitals and care homes across the country. spray is also being used at NASA labs.
Sadia has already got orders for her ‘Voltic’ spray from as many as 13 countries around the world. The spray can be used in medical equipment, hotels, motels, restaurants, aircraft and nuclear stations.
