Hundreds of pieces of new disinfection equipment was donated to the sports equipment center of the General Administration of Sport of China by Shanghai-based enterprise Lumenlabs on Thursday at the Capital Gymnasium in Beijing to protect national athletes.

After the Chinese Olympic Committee announced it would send 777 athletes to the Tokyo 2020 Games, which start on July 23 after a one-year delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, athletes' safety became a major concern.

According to Cao Wei, founder of Lumenlabs, 'light vaccine' is a 222-nanometer piece of ultraviolet disinfection equipment, which can kill 99.99 percent of the COVID-19 virus and is harmless to the human body.

Experiments show the equipment starts to kill the virus when it starts operation. It can kill most of the virus in one minute and the destruction rate will reach 99.99 percent after five minutes, Cao said.

"The discovery and use of penicillin have extended the life span of human beings by 15 years. The wide application of 'light vaccine' technology will have a more profound impact on the world," Cao said.

According to Cao, the company is committed to promoting the wide application of the equipment in the public field, providing environmental immunity space for society.