Anti-viral transparent adhesive protection for Touch Screens to help in the fight against COVID-19

随着人们恢复日常生活，社会需要新的解决方案来降低COVID-19交叉感染的可能性。然而，常见的触摸表面已被证明含有显著的病毒和微生物污染。SARS-CoV-2病毒可以在塑料和玻璃表面上存在数天，尽管定期清洁，但同一触摸表面的多个用户会产生持续的生物负荷，导致交叉污染。研究表明，COVID-19病房医务人员的移动的手机触摸屏含有SARS-CoV-2病毒的可能性为80%。几乎可以肯定的是，COVID-19感染者将拥有高度污染的移动的手机屏幕。如果他们使用公共交通售票机，污染物将传递到该表面，就像其他形式的触摸屏一样。一种新形式的透明涂层已经开发出来，使用真空涂层，具有极强的杀菌性。这些新的抗病毒涂层将在广泛用于交通的售票机上进行测试，从而打破因众多人接触同一表面而产生的传播链。

Society requires new solutions to reduce the probability of COVID-19 cross-infection as people resume their daily lives. However, common touch surfaces have been shown to contain significant viral and microbial contamination. The SARS-CoV-2 virus can be present on plastic and glass surfaces for several days and multiple users of the same touch surfaces creates a continuous biological load that leads to cross-contamination, despite periodic cleaning.Studies have shown that touch screens of mobile phones belonging to medical staff in COVID-19 wards have a \>80% chance of containing the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It is almost certain that people with COVID-19 will have a highly contaminated mobile phone screens. If they then use public transport ticketing machines, the contamination will pass to that surface, as is the case with other forms of touch screen.A new form of transparent coating has been developed using vacuum coating that is extremely biocidal. These new anti-viral coatings will be tested on ticket machines used widely in transport, and thus break chains of transmission arising from numerous people touching the same surface.