The Institute of Public Health will try to air infectious diseases out of the classrooms.
Senior researcher Sverre Bjørn Holøs at Sintef installs air purifiers at Steinberg school. This is how viruses and infections are to be removed from the classroom. Photo: Stein J. Bjørge
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Published: 30/01/2024 22:30 | Updated: 30/01/2024 23:43
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- The Institute of Public Health and Sintef are now testing air purifiers in Norwegian classrooms to see if they can prevent virus infection.
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Sverre Bjørn Holøs carries two cardboard boxes into a classroom at Steinberg School in Drammen. He is an expert on indoor climate.
At the primary school, he unpacks and installs two air purifiers.
While the children have lessons in the classroom, the machines will clean the air. For Sverre Bjørn Holøs believes in what the air purifiers can do to the indoor air:
The idea is that the air can be cleaned of both infectious viruses and bacteria that make children sick.
For some, it might sound like one of Petter Smart’s latest inventions.
But this is a real research project that can soon be rolled out to 200 schools in Norway.
How can it prevent children from getting sick?
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2024-01-30 21:30:03
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