It's a part of all of our new routines, having to constantly sanitize
our hands before entering any and every establishment. But how would
you react if, before granting you entry, a store expected to cleanse
your entire body?
It's a request you may face sooner rather than later thanks to yet
another pandemic era innovation. It's one that could be on the path to
becoming less of a showground curiosity and more of a sanitary
necessity. Cherisse Halsall reports:
He's the man who was tasked with the fumigation of Albert Street in the
days when it became the epicenter of Belize's COVID-19 infections.
Russell Gongora - Owner, Sanitization, and Fumigation of Environments
"We do the fumigation for all places that are maybe known to have maybe a
contact or somebody that's infected with the virus and what we do is the
disinfection of the premises. People are just waiting for the second wave
to come in but I think it's very important for the preparation to be put in
place before the next wave come in because that's what every panics and
then they're looking for whatever product they are going to use or what we
going to put in place and we already seen what the first wave has done. We
had to close down and we had a lot of loss of revenue, loss of employees.
It was a havoc, we believe that if we learn from the experience from the
first wave, I think we should be preparing ourselves for the second wave."
Gongora is also looking forward to the universal sanitation that could be
instrumental when it comes to reopening schools.
Russell Gongora
"I created the misting tunnel because one of the major concerns for the
places I was disinfecting was, their main question was how do I maintain my
premises disinfected and that's a question I answered to them and said
contamination come from outside into your building, the only way you can
control that is by trying to have a process or protocols in place that you
can contain that contamination from not entering into your premises and
part of that is to disinfect from the sole to the clothing of the body and
encourage good hygiene by wearing your mask, washing your hands. So the
disinfecting tunnel was just an added process that we can so that we can
not bring in that contamination of that virus or bacteria, whatever into
your premesis. So it's just an added process to good hygiene. We are
promoting a safe product, it's a disinfecting, we do the foot mats also, so
before you enter into your business and it doesn't have to be the mist
tunnel, we actually provide the raw solution so you can mix it yourself,
one bottle like this gives you raw dilution for surface areas, one bottle
like this produces 100 litres of ready to use product.
Visitors to the Dibary store were the first to be misted yesterday in what
was an initial consumer test for the product. And Gongora says that while
it may seem high tech it was locally sourced.
Russell Gongora
"The machine was built right here in Belize in Ladyville at our warehouse
like I said the structure, we have our local guys that do framework, they
did it for me. And the electronics of course me and my dad we work on
electronics along with our technicians. The parts, everything was sourced
here in Belize, nothing was ordered ready-made, everything was done here in
Belize."
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Russell Gongora - Owner, Sanitization, and Fumigation of Environments