Efficacy of UVC on Covid-19
At a time of pandemic, we encourage clients to be led by the science when assessing the suitability of UVC disinfection technology for tackling Covid-19 risk. However, the supporting evidence for the effectiveness of UVC disinfection technology on Covid-19 is compelling.
There are a number of peer-reviewed reports which set out in detail the merits and efficacy of using UVC light to disinfect environments and control Covid-19 transmission.
On this page we provide two of the most notable reports that have been released about UVC’s efficacy on Covid-19.
REPORTS
Quotation: “Walker’s study calculated a UV susceptibility constant for MHV coronavirus of 0.37 m2 /J, which places it as one of the easier microorganisms to inactivate. Darnell et al. (2004) showed that SARS-CoV-1 could be inactivated by UV-C to enable safe working with virus containing materials. Bedell et al (2016) showed a UV-C decontamination device was able to inactivate MERS-CoV and MHV coronavirus at 1.22m, with almost a 6 log reduction for MERS-CoV in 5 minutes.”
Quotation: “We demonstrated that SARS-CoV-2, even at high viral titers, could be inactivated rapidly by UVC irradiation, revealing that this method is reliable not only for disinfection purposes in health care facilities but also for preparing inactivated SARS-CoV-2 material for research.”
“The supporting evidence for the effectiveness of UVC disinfection technology on Covid-19 is compelling.”
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