According to Symbioswiss founder Dr. Claude Begle, the aim is to provide “an affordable and easy-to-deploy solution that could be equally applicable in the developing and developing regions of the world”.

The new technology gives the product powerful disinfecting properties due to oxides and radicals in its composition, produced by electrolysis; it will also cost only three-fourths of the chemical options available in the market. Having been tested by various pathogenic deactivation test procedures, it has proven to be effective against vaccinia virus, papovavirus, adenovirus, and poliovirus, and also appears to have the efficacy to neutralise various new strains of contagious viruses, spores and allergens.

Produced with a HydroCleanerTM machine from Swiss NeWater, the only raw material that the disinfectant requires is 99.9 per cent pure common salt, tap water and electricity. The machine can produce 200-250 litres disinfectant per shift, and the joint venture has been giving away close to 600-800 litres of disinfectant every day to support the fight against coronavirus.

This disinfectant solution, which enables a quick and easy generation of disinfecting water without the need of large industrial infrastructure, has been provided to the panchayat samiti of Khed near Pune, one of the communities to which Forbes Marshall is extending support in the current health situation.

It is being used in the isolation wards of the 10 primary healthcare centres in the Khed area, treating cases emerging from the current pandemic, and later at a larger facility that is being set up. The technology is also being used in a few hospitals in Pune including the Aundh Chest Hospital and other hospitals in Vishakpatnam and Mumbai.