31/03/2020
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As the Corona virus pandemic continues to evolve, countries around the globe are experiencing an acute shortage of surgical masks and respirators.Battelle, R & D institute from Columbus, Ohio recently gets a go ahead from President Trump to deploy its decontamination system for reusing N95 face masks while India is still struggling hard to tackle the short supply and not looking at alternate ways to reuse the Masks .
Columbus, Ohio (March 29, 2020)—Battelle received an emergency go-ahead from the FDA over the weekend to deploy its decontamination system for personal protective equipment (PPE), allowing healthcare workers to clean and reuse scarce N95 respirator masks.