UEA's key worker sanitiser cleans 1.3m pairs of handspublished at 18:09 British Summer Time 18 June 2020
The last batch of key worker hand sanitiser created on a university campus has been bottled.
Technicians from the University of East Anglia have created nearly 4,000 litres of the Covid-19 sanitiser over the past 12 weeks, which they reckon has cleaned 1.3 million pairs of hands.
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UEA opened up labs on its Norwich campus to make the product, supported with supplies from businesses, including Southwold brewers Adnams.
The sanitiser was distributed to 15 local health and social care facilities, NHS trusts and community organisations in the East of England, but with demand reducing the university says the project has come to a natural conclusion.