TECHNOLOGY that will alert the public to the need to replace their face mask has been unveiled by a Scottish smart packaging company. Insignia Technologies, based in Motherwell, have designed a smart label to encourage safer mask practice while bringing peace of mind to the public. The label will change colour to indicate when a disposable face mask has reached the end of its recommended lifespan or when a re-usable mask requires to be changed. Founded in 2012, Insignia Technologies’ smart labels are used across the food and drink sector. It set out on a mission to reduce food waste by developing a label that uses smart pigment technology to change colour over time to show how long a packet of food has been open. When Covid-19 hit, its team redeveloped its label technology so it could be used on face masks.
The mutated coronavirus spreading rapidly in the UK will likely become the dominant global strain, a SAGE expert warned today after No10 revealed Gibraltar has become the fifth place outside of Britain to confirm a case of the new variant.
Professor Calum Semple, an infectious diseases expert at the University of Liverpool, claimed the new variant would out-compete all the other strains because it has the evolutionary advantage of being able to spread more easily.
The strain, currently called VUI-202012/01, has already been confirmed in Denmark, Gibraltar, the Netherlands, Australia and Italy. There have also been unverified reports of cases in Belgium.
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Boris Johnson was last night urged to publish clear evidence of the Covid data he used to cancel Christmas for millions.
The Prime Minister has warned the new variant of coronavirus may be up to 70 per cent more transmissible than previous strains and could overwhelm the NHS.
But last night one scientist demanded greater transparency over the number that shut down swathes of the UK.
Carl Heneghan, Professor of Evidence Based Medicine at Oxford University s Nuffield Department of Primary Care, expressed scepticism over the 70 per cent figure.
Carl Heneghan, Professor of Evidence Based Medicine at Oxford University s Nuffield Department of Primary Care, said it was too early to draw such an inference