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Research underway in N.S., N.B. to develop new coronavirus-killing package coating

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coronavirus on the surfaces of items we touch in our daily lives.Biochemist Beth Mason, head of the Verschuren Centre at Cape Breton University, is leading the quest to develop a special coating for plastic packaging that would kill or disable the virus on contact.The polymer-based coating, if successful, would attack the cell functions the virus needs to survive and remain effective for up to three months — reducing the need to wipe down and disinfect a variety of store-bought goods.

Nova Scotia reports single new coronavirus case related to travel for 3rd straight day “Pretty much everything we do involves some degree of packaging and that’s a massive surface area for contact transmission,” Mason said.“Because you can’t be washing all.

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