<span style="color: #222222;">In Uttar Pradesh the number of COVID-19 patients has increased to 431 out of which 32 patient have recovered successfully. Administration is implementing complete lockdown in the sealed areas of 15 districts and sanitization of each and every part of these areas has begun.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Meanwhile Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur has developed a very low cost personal protective equipment, PPE which can be produced for less than 100 rupees.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Spread of COVID-19 has resulted in a huge demand for personal protective equipment (PPE) for workers in essential services who are exposed to high-risk environments. As standard PPE kits become scarce there is urgent need for low-cost and mass producible alternatives that provide protection for the entire body. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">A team of IIT Kanpur researchers and industry partners has designed the Kit based on thin cylindrical rolls of polythene, which is commonly used in the industry for packaging and making plastic-bags. DR. Nitin Gupta of Biological Science and Bio engineering Department of IIT Kanpur told AIR</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">These PPE kits can be mass produced for less than 100 rupees. The design and the production process of the PIPES Kit is open-source which means any small or medium-scale factory anywhere in the country can start manufacturing them in large quantities within a few days. </span><br />''