New Delhi, 7 June 2021: In a bid to do its bit in fighting against Covid-19, a Swiss hygiene company has donated antiviral masks worth Rs15 crores for the protection of COVID warriors through NGOs, government organisations, civil society, hospitals, and numerous healthcare centers. These warriors like doctors, healthcare professionals, police personnel, civil defense volunteers including disaster management volunteers, municipal workers and more, are risking their lives every day to help others in need, the company said in a statement released on Monday.
Livinguard is an environment-friendly hygiene technology platform based in Zug, Switzerland. It claims to be the first company in the world to empower textiles and other materials with self-disinfecting properties.
The company says that this will ensure that brave frontline heroes are especially protected with the most superior patented antiviral and antibacterial technology on textile, rather than just being sufficiently protected.
"Textiles treated with Livinguard Technology have been scientifically proven to destroy 99.9% bacteria and viruses, including SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) by researchers at the Freie Universität Berlin and The Department of Environmental Science at the University of Arizona. Furthermore, they are reusable and washable up to 6 months," the statement said adding that it effectively replaces 210 single-use masks.
Speaking on the initiative, Sanjeev Swamy, Founder, Inventor & CEO, Livinguard AG, stated, "Wearing a mask prevents a COVID-19 positive patient from transmitting the coronavirus to others and prevents a healthy person from being infected by SARS-CoV-2. We stand with India at this hour of need and support the country in this fight."
One of the most respected science leaders of India, Padma Vibhushan, Dr Raghunath Mashelkar, added, "Livinguard’s scientific breakthrough of deactivating SARS-CoV-2 virus on contact with the mask, is a global game changer, since it just does not prevent the entry of the virus due to its self-disinfecting technology but protect from the virus as well."
Under this initiative, Livinguard AG has donated masks to several NGOs and organizations like Child Relief and You (CRY), Magic Bus, Apnalaya, Mumbai Police, Tata Memorial, Punjab Police, ISB Students, Educate Girls, 108 Ambulance, Concern, India, Helping hands, Crematorium Workers, Freedom for You Foundation, Coro India, K Shamanta NGO, Sadhu Vaswani Mission, Radaswami Satsung Beas, Bharathy Thahliani and Shri Dinkar Gupta, IPS, DGP, CHANDIGARH and others.
Kreeanne Rabadi, Regional Director - West, CRY, stated, "CRY is so grateful to Livinguard for donating to us 25,000 high quality face masks with Anti-microbial technology. The masks will be sent to front-line workers in our project areas. Thank you Livinguard for enabling them to be protected in this pandemic while they provide critical services to our children and communities."
