Last week, Russian news channels reported cases of the first known cases of an avian influenza virus called H5N8 passing from poultry to humans, marking the first known H5N8 infection in humans. Several other avian flu strains are known to infect humans, including H5N1, H7N9 and H9N2. ...
To give the cleaning industry a much-needed voice in Parliament, the British Cleaning Council (BCC) are sponsoring the creation of an All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG), to represent the cleaning and hygiene sector and allow it to influence discussions, ministers and Government. An APPG ...
With COVID-19 and its destructive wake forcibly stimulating innovation in retail, leisure and workplace hygiene, product development experts Oakland Innovation have produced a report that predicts that science-led approaches will underline the efficiency of cleaning products and strategies in the f...
Cleverly coinciding with the government’s current ‘Eat Out to Help Out’ scheme to encourage public spending in the wake of the pandemic, high-tech innovation company OpenClean Technologies have sped up their launch process and released their key product; a hand-sanitising door handle, origina...
Although leaving our comfortable Work From Home set-ups seems like a long way off yet, as June sees the gradual lifting of lockdown restrictions it is important for employers to begin to think about how offices will be able to safely re-open in a post-pandemic UK. With the prospect of a va...
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to linger on, many of us are feeling more conscious than ever about sanitation in the home and office. The pathogen which causes Covid-19, called SARS-CoV-2, is known to survive on surfaces from several hours to several days, highlighting the importance of effecti...
The SARS-CoV-2 pathogen which causes the disease Covid-19 has been a devastating and difficult pathogen to deal with. The silent symptoms many experience, especially during the incubation period of the disease where carriers are still contagious, is part of the reason why the pathogen has spread so...
As the strain of coronavirus which originated in Wuhan continues to sweep across the globe, responsible approaches in the workplace have become a key element to containing the spread of illness. Officially called SARS-CoV-2, the virus, which causes the illness known as COVID19, is thought to sp...
