Country's first sanitiser walkthrough gate installed.

JHANG -- The Jhang district administration has installed the country's first locally-made sanitiser walkthrough gate at a fruit and vegetable market.

The walkthrough gate is the third of its kind in the world, after similar facilities were installed in the United States and Turkey, the district administration claimed. The choice of the site to install the gate is also strategic, keeping in view the arrival of thousands of customers who visit the market daily to purchase essential items. The vegetables and fruit markets have been permitted to remain open by the authorities during the ongoing lockdown imposed to curb the spread of coronavirus. The innovative equipment consists of a frame using iron pipes with a fibreglass sheet on its exterior, The Express Tribune learnt.

There are nozzles inside the iron frame. A big drum of chlorinated water is placed at a little distance from the sanitiser gate which passes the water to the nozzles installed inside, with the help of an electric motor.

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The pressure of the motor and narrow crevices of the nozzles converts the water to vapour which engulfs every individual passing through the gate, killing all types of germs...