It’s flu season. And for two and a half years it is not the only epidemic that has settled in winter. Like everyone else, clubs try to protect themselves from various viruses that can quickly circulate in a dressing room. Following the Covid-19 pandemic, Paris-SG has thus equipped itself with an innovative technology called Lod’Air, the purpose of which is to kill viruses and microbes circulating in the air of a defined space thanks to the use of ultraviolet rays (UVC ).
“We have reinvented, simplified and miniaturized what we have been doing for years to disinfect water or operating rooms thanks to UVCexplains Olivier Moyen, inventor of the concept. Our system, which can be found in the form of street lights, pendant lights, ceiling tiles, elevator systems, buses and cars, draws in air via a vacuum turbine. It then passes through a disinfection tunnel where the UVC LEDs are present. »
In a dressing room there can therefore be 70 meters of LEDs via two different devices. Olivier Moyen filed a patent and had the system of him in a sealed chamber, in which various viruses (Covid, influenza, gastro, etc.) were introduced, approved by a Cofrac certified laboratory in Lyon (French Accreditation Committee). These tests validated the fact that this technique eliminated viruses introduced into a room.
Other equipped French clubs
PSG – like Rennes and other French clubs – have equipped their dressing room at the Camp des Loges, but also other places of treatment and stay, in order to minimize the risk of infection and contagion. It also has portable models for use on the go.
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At the instigation of the French team doctor, Franck Le Gall, the FFF also had this system installed in the changing rooms and in various living rooms at Clairefontaine. The portable models can also be used by the Blues on their travels. This was not the case during the World Cup in Qatar, where several players were also affected by a virus.
