Coronavirus Updates: Shortage of Hand sanitisers, Manipur University make 500 bottles by their own

In view of coronavirus, Janta curfew has been announced in India asking people to stay at home. However, there has been a sudden rise in the demand of hand sanitizers and many universities have been contributing by producing their own sanitizers. In order to meet the rising demand of hand sanitizers, the chemistry department of Manipur University has made 500 bottles of ethyl alcohol-based hand sanitizers.

"Initially we made 200 bottles of hand sanitizers, weighing 200 ml each. Ethyl Alcohol (80 to 90 per cent), hydrogen peroxide,



glycerol and distilled water were used to make the sanitiser in the laboratory, Prof Okram Mukherjee said.

In the first phase, 200 plastic bottles were procured from a local company on March 19. The sanitizers were distributed among the varsity community, Mukherjee said.

Around 300 bottles of sanitizers were made on Saturday and the bottles will be distributed among local people if they approach the university," he said.

We are in a position to make another 1,000 bottles, the professor said.