The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is spreading around the world at high speed. Highly contagious due to airborne transmission, it has taken the best health systems by surprise and highlights the fundamental importance of good indoor air quality. Our air purifiers are the solution of choice in the fight against the pandemic, especially its spread in the hospital environment.

Covid-19 is a new and largely unknown virus. In the early days of the epidemic, WHO and epidemiologists claimed that this coronavirus was mainly transmitted by droplets that were sent into the air when a sick person coughed or sneezed, and that a distance of one metre was sufficient to protect against it. 

Nevertheless, several studies seem to prove that Covid-19 can be spread through the air much more easily. “The virus can actually be transmitted when people are just talking,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

TV report on a Japanese study on airborne transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.

Air purifiers: attack the coronavirus at the source!

The Ikibox air purifiers use a revolutionary technology and allow you to clean the indoor air in less than 10 minutes. 

In particular, they are effective against the spread of coronaviruses: according to a 2012 IAQ (indoor air quality) study, our products reduce the risk of airborne contamination by 50 to 70%.

Furthermore, Ikibox devices do not use filters. This is an important advantage, since the use of filters can generate dangerous sources of secondary contamination during replacement, handling or wear and tear. 

Free loans to hospitals and a retirement home

From the very beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic, we realized that Ikibox air purifiers could be a powerful ally in the fight against this scourge that affects every country in the world and claims countless victims. We therefore assembled and sent all available units to several hospitals and a retirement home as a matter of urgency and lent them to them free of charge. 

However, there are still millions of people who may be contaminated by the virus in the medical environment, the industrial sector, confined public spaces such as public transport… Our priority is therefore to make our air purification solutions as widely available as possible while continuing to support the most exposed professionals.

Download : The VIDOC-19 Prevention and Treatment Manual made available by the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University Medical School (FAHZU), China.

Firas Esreb, Ikibox’s founder, was the guest of BFM TV on July 24, 2019. He highlighted the importance of a good indoor air quality and presented a revolutionary technology that made our air purifier the first solution to clean up the air.

Ikibox air purifiers allow us to “give a break to our immune defenses”, explains Firas Esreb in BFM Business TV show “Objectif Croissance”. Indeed, we spend about 80% of our time inside buildings, and the air we breathe in is up to 90 times more polluted than outside! 

Viruses, endocrine disruptors, allergens… this type of indoor air pollution develops immunosuppression and is causing many pathologies. “WHO shows that since 2015, poor air quality is causing more death than poor water quality” says Firas Esreb. 

Innovative technology to help the human body to defend itself

To illustrate his point, the Ikibox’s founder takes for example the table on BFM TV’s set. “This table is made of plastic. This plastic will release endocrine disruptors for 5 to 10 years! The most important thing is to prevent and  to help human body to defend itself.

Ikibox air purifiers clean up the air in less than 10 minutes, and are sustainable over time because they almost require no maintenance. Their quality has been “approved in France and Switzerland by major laboratories with which we have developed innovative testing procedures that are now accessible to all the stakeholders,” says Firas Esreb. “With Ikibox, we are trying to create a norm for air purification devices.”