A device designed by an Indian scientist with the potential of containing the infectivity of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus causing Covid-19) will soon be tested in the US and Mexico for efficacy.

The scientist Rajah Vijay Kumar began work on the device — Scalene Hypercharge Corona Canon (SHYCOCAN) — in April 2019, after finding a dip in productive days at their campus due to common cold, and flu in 2018-19.

His team found a study that showed promise in effective prevention of airborne transmitted Influenza A virus infection by use of active Ionisation of the infected environment.

What It Does

In SARS-CoV-2, the initial attachment of the virion to the host cell is initiated by interactions between the S-protein and its receptor. And, the guiding mechanism is the negative transmembrane potential of the host cells.

“In simple terms, S-protein makes the virus to infect by seeking negative potential. For instance, our cell walls have a negative potential, which attracts the virus and the S-protein attaches the receptor. Our device is intended to disable S-protein by neutralising it with negatively charged electrons. This will effectively disable the virus’ mechanism to infect,” he explained

SHYCOCAN, that can at least produce 10 to 100 trillion ions per second, is able to provide an electron density of a minimum 6 trillion per cubic centimetre at a distance of at least 12 centimetres from the canon. “The operating current is within a safe range,” Kumar said, adding that once the device is validated, he would be providing the designs to any manufacturer at a very affordable cost.

To reduce infectivity and air and surface borne propagation of Covid-19, Kumar said: “We need to build devices to pump out a large number of hypercharged electrons into the atmosphere, from wherever possible, that would lead to S-protein neutralisation and rendering the virus infectivity disabled. This kind of guidance and transmission jamming mechanisms can be easily achievable and is cost-effective. Bigger devices could also be built.”

In the US, the state of Maryland will be testing the device through the Texas Southern University, while the government of Mexico’s National Council for Science and Technology will be testing it through its Technological Development, Cooperation and Innovation department.

For the noobs in simple english

SHYCOCAN is a device which exploits the affinity of Covid-19 virus towards negative potential charge at molecular level through which it first infects human cells.

So the device produces a very volume of free electrons into the environment where Covid-19 virus presence is high like hospitals and public places where outbreaks have occurred inorder to destroy the ability of the Covid-19 virus to attach with human host cells by destroying it's ability to infect humans.

Inshort It contains the spread of infection by disabling the virus attack mechanism.

Great Indian

Nice innovation

I hope people know that right here in your backyard at a small town called Ede, there is a small Redeem University where Professor Christian Happi that built a local diagnosis machine for Ebola; he is also sequencing RNA test for covid-19.

So far all cases refered to his Center For Excellence are negative. Stay tuned.

I hope there is no unannounced future side effect. Although tough times require tough measures, it's pros and cons should be made known.

This message is a reply. The comment which my argument replies was given in a Coronavirus thread . This reply is valid, factual and does not break any rule of Nairaland.

Jeromejnr:
I have been seeing some deluded Athiest on here bashing religion and saying things like all religions (especially Christianity) are waiting for scientists to find a cure then they will thank God instead of the scientists.

First of all, many of those scientists are Christian's.

Secondly, most of the drugs you enjoy today were discovered by Christians e.g. Penicillin.

Thirdly, Hospitals were first founded by Christians.

Fourthly, United States were most of these cures come from was founded by strong Christian fathers who gave the country a good foundation.

Lastly, Athiests enjoy the benefits of Christian prayers today (although they don't know it). Because of this, most of them are still alive. But with that same breath, they choose to curse God.

So the question is, what has Athiesm contributed to the world?

Not up to Ten centuries ago when modern science was still young, Galileo Galilei, a Catholic, was standing before a criminal court which was also Ecclesiastical (christian bishops were part of the court). Skeptical Galileo had worked on his telescope , he was not lying. He saw that there were other planets and that the Earth revolved around the sun. In his time, religion was mixed with governance and not distinct from the State of Rome.

Galileo, like other scientists of his time , was at the verge of being sentenced to death for apostasy and blasphemy. The government not only beheaded scientists in that dark age, but also hung and burnt them on stake. Why was the Father of Modern Day Astronomy, the one whose foundational argument about the solar system has led to the establishment of space organizations like NASA today, risking a death sentence at a christian court?

The answer is simple. According to Joshua in the Bible when he went to war (would be termed a genocide today) he prayed to God and the "Sun stood still". The christian court argued that if Joshua in the Bible agreed that it was the "sun that stood still" then it means the sun was the moving solar body for nothing that does not move can stand still. The Christian court also argued that David in his Psalms acknowledged that God makes sun to rise from the East and set in the West. How then could a "stupid scientist" argue that the sun does not move . How could such "fool" rather the earth revolves.

There is no doubt that Galileo was a Catholic and a christian. But there is huge doubt that Christianity influenced his breakthrough in science. Christianity wanted to alter , disrupt and hinder his breakthrough. Christianity wanted him dead for apostasy and blasphemy even though he agreed to being a Christian. What do you think would happen if he outrightly said he was not one?

That's the story you do not see. When we talk about science and religion , we are not asking whether a Christian, Muslim , Buddhist or Atheist made a positive breakthrough in science. No, the procedures of science are Universal and as long as a person of any religion , race or gender follows that procedure, he will arrive at a scientific and real conclusion.
When we argue about science and religion we argue whether a telescope or a bible gave humanity initial knowledge about the status of the solar system.

When we argue about science and religion we argue whether it is a hand sanitizer (based on reason) or an anointing oil ( based on faith ) that washes away strains of the Coronavirus in our palms.

Seun, the Founder of this forum, is an atheist. My last paragraph replies yours.

This anti Covid-19 SHYCOCAN device is not his first breakthrough in medical field

In 2019 The US Food and Drug Administration's (USFDA) Centre for Devices and Radiological Health had labelled a medical invention by Rajah Vijay Kumar as a “breakthrough device” in the treatment of breast, liver, and pancreatic cancer.

Rajah Vijay Kumar is a researcher in the field of biophysics, nanotechnology, and sustainable energy.

Cytotron, the device developed by Rajah, is based on quantum magnetic resonance therapy (QMRT).

The body’s tumour suppression mechanism is reactivated non-invasively by QMRT by targeting calibrated doses of radio- or sub-radio frequency, non-ionising, non-thermal electromagnetic waves at the tumour site.

This triggers the production of new tumour suppressing nucleoproteins that lead to apopstosis (programmed cell death).

Let's hope his SHYCOCAN device proves effective in containing the spread of corona virus during lab tests