{"id":13767,"date":"2021-04-02T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/04\/02\/viet-nam-national-university-ho-chi-minh-city-researchers-make-covid-19-prevention-control-products-2\/"},"modified":"2021-04-02T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T07:45:00","slug":"viet-nam-national-university-ho-chi-minh-city-researchers-make-covid-19-prevention-control-products-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/04\/02\/viet-nam-national-university-ho-chi-minh-city-researchers-make-covid-19-prevention-control-products-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Viet Nam National University Ho Chi Minh city researchers make COVID-19 prevention, control products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n                            <!--<a class=\"format-txt\" href=\"{baseURL}\/View\/{release.id}?_download=1\">View this article in .txt format<\/a>--><\/p>\n<p>HANOI,&#13;<br \/>\nVIETNAM &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a> &#8211; 2 April&#13;<br \/>\n2021 &#8211; Students and scientists at the <a href=\"https:\/\/vnuhcm.edu.vn\/\">Viet Nam National University Ho Chi Minh&#13;<br \/>\nCity (VNUHCM)<\/a> have carried out extensive research and developed products that help&#13;<br \/>\nprevent the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/stfCo1pa8Pw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/stfCo1pa8Pw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/stfCo1pa8Pw\"><img class=\"youtube-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/release.media-outreach.com\/release.php\/Images\/138824\/PressReleaseTMPQZFhnl.jpg#image-138824\"\/><\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Out&#13;<br \/>\nof 2,000 projects from 79 countries, one on producing protein from Ecoli&#13;<br \/>\nbacteria in laboratories by a student team from the University of Science won&#13;<br \/>\nsponsorship from the Agence Universitaire de La Francophonie &#8211; a society of&#13;<br \/>\nuniversities offering training in the French language.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Firstly,&#13;<br \/>\nthey collaborated with a company in the bio-technology industry to carry out&#13;<br \/>\nthe project under Dr. Nguyen Thuy Vy, head of the genetics department at the&#13;<br \/>\nuniversity&#8217;s biology and bio-technology faculty. The research was prompted by&#13;<br \/>\nthe fact that asymptomatic COVID patients and those with mild symptoms were&#13;<br \/>\nbelieved to be a hurdle to control the pandemic in the community. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>To&#13;<br \/>\ndetect infection, many countries use antibody tests. The advantages of this&#13;<br \/>\nmethod are that it is fast, easy to deploy on a large scale and has great&#13;<br \/>\naccuracy. However, Viet Nam does not have suppliers of SARS\u2010CoV\u20102 viral protein antigens,&#13;<br \/>\nmaking it difficult for companies to seek for manufacturing antibody testing&#13;<br \/>\nkits. Dr Nguyen Thuy Vy said: &#8220;We use a technology to produce protein from Ecoli bacteria at&#13;<br \/>\nlow cost. Around the world, most proteins are produced from animal tissue.&#8221; Vy&#13;<br \/>\nand two students, Le Tran Dang Khoi and Vo Ho My Phuc began the research in&#13;<br \/>\nearly June with sponsorship from AUF and they created products within three&#13;<br \/>\nmonths.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The&#13;<br \/>\nproject does not only contribute to COVID-19 prevention but also inspires other&#13;<br \/>\nstudents to take up research. The product is useful for COVID-19 tests with&#13;<br \/>\nfast, accurate results and affordable prices.&#8221;\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The&#13;<br \/>\nVNUHCM&#8217;s National Key Laboratory of Digital Control and System Engineering&#13;<br \/>\n(DCSELab) collaborated with the Centre of Science and Technology Development&#13;<br \/>\nfor Youth to make a mobile disinfection chamber.\u00a0 With sensors detecting and automatically&#13;<br \/>\nspraying once a person steps in, signal lights, and a 360-degree fog mist&#13;<br \/>\nsprayer, the chamber uses anolyte solution and ultraviolet, ozone and heat&#13;<br \/>\ndisinfection technologies to help disinfect the whole body. The chamber has&#13;<br \/>\nbeen used at several hospitals in the city since the COVID-19 pandemic broke&#13;<br \/>\nout. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>DCSELab&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nscientists also made an automatic chamber for disinfection and obtaining&#13;<br \/>\nsamples from patients without making contact. The chamber disinfects automatically&#13;<br \/>\nbefore the next person enters for giving samples. Though ultraviolet&#13;<br \/>\ndisinfection technology is used, the UV rays do not directly touch peoples&#8217;&#13;<br \/>\nbodies and so are not harmful to health officials or patients. Moreover, the&#13;<br \/>\nhigh-efficiency particulate air filter technology combines with UV to&#13;<br \/>\ncompletely kill viruses and bacteria remaining in the air after being sucked&#13;<br \/>\nout of the chamber.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The&#13;<br \/>\nother COVID-19 product by DCSELab is a simple ventilator working on the&#13;<br \/>\nprinciple of automatically squeezing and releasing Ambu bag to deliver air into&#13;<br \/>\na patient&#8217;s lungs. The product is being finalized after many revisions and&#13;<br \/>\nconsultancy from specialists at Cho Ray Hospital and the University of Medicine&#13;<br \/>\nand Pharmacy.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Another&#13;<br \/>\nVNUHCM&#8217;s member university, the University of Technology, has innovated dozens&#13;<br \/>\nof useful and convenient products to serve the community in terms of COVID-19&#13;<br \/>\nprevention and containment. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Scientists&#13;<br \/>\nat the Bach Khoa Research Centre for Manufacturing Engineering at the&#13;<br \/>\nUniversity of Technology have also made a mobile disinfection system with air&#13;<br \/>\nfilters to ensure clean air is discharged in the environment. The technology&#13;<br \/>\nhas been transferred to companies for commercialisation and mass&#13;<br \/>\nproduction.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>A&#13;<br \/>\nresearch team at the University of Technology&#8217;s material technology faculty has&#13;<br \/>\nmade masks that could be used by healthcare workers for continuous hours.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Assoc.&#13;<br \/>\nProf. Dr. Huynh Dai Phu, the faculty dean, said when COVID-19 broke out, one&#13;<br \/>\nurgent issue was a shortage of medical equipment. Healthcare workers faced a&#13;<br \/>\nhigh risk of infection because of working for many hours in an environment&#13;<br \/>\nwithout negative pressure chamber. It was very important for them to use&#13;<br \/>\npreventive clothes, goggles and masks to prevent the risk of contracting the&#13;<br \/>\nvirus, and his team made these masks with a bacteria and air filter membrane to&#13;<br \/>\navoid infection, Phu said. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>The&#13;<br \/>\nair supplied through the mask is sufficient for many hours for healthcare&#13;<br \/>\nworkers. This mask mitigated some of the shortcomings in existing ones during&#13;<br \/>\nthe pandemic period. In addition, the material used in these masks is&#13;<br \/>\nenvironment-friendly polymer. The medical workers at Trung Vuong Hospital are&#13;<br \/>\nusing them. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Lecturers&#13;<br \/>\nat the University of Technology&#8217;s mechanical engineering faculty made an&#13;<br \/>\nautomatic machine for sewing masks from anti-bacterial clothing. Besides, the&#13;<br \/>\nuniversity&#8217;s lecturers and students made goggles that keep out aerosols from&#13;<br \/>\npatients using 3D printing technology and sanitizers. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13; <\/p>\n<p>Assoc.&#13;<br \/>\nProf. Dr. Mai Thanh Phong, the university&#8217;s president, said by focusing on&#13;<br \/>\nproducts for COVID-19 prevention and control, students, lecturers and&#13;<br \/>\nresearchers at the university hope to contribute their abilities and efforts to&#13;<br \/>\nthe country&#8217;s combat against the pandemic. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-04-02\/71967\/viet-nam-national-university-ho-chi-minh-city-researchers-make-covid-19-prevention-control-products\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HANOI,&#13; VIETNAM &#8211; Media OutReach &#8211; 2 April&#13; 2021 &#8211; Students and scientists at the Viet Nam National University Ho Chi Minh&#13; City (VNUHCM) have carried out extensive research and developed products that help&#13; prevent the spread of COVID-19. 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