In March 2020, suppliers of UV disinfection components from China and South Korea announced, that the demand for UV disinfection raw materials continue to increase significantly due to the outbreak of COVID-19. The inquiry of UV disinfection products is 5 times higher than in the past month, while the factory is with full capacity, and new order for traditional low-voltage UV germicidal lamps can only be shipped after late May.

When people start to notice the explosive growth of COVID-19, protective products and hand sanitizer or other liquid disinfectants are sold quickly, and soon run out of stock. Since then, as the epidemic still spread, more people begin to seek reusable protective equipment and electronic disinfection supplies as alternative solution. Therefore, the electric steriliser set, which usually are more professional but less frequently used in daily life, are becoming a large demand trend. Sales of some special disinfection products on various platforms have also rose significantly. For example, many leading brands of cell phone sanitizer and ultraviolet light sanitizer sold out quickly in just 2 weeks on the Amazon platform.

On March 31st, Dr. Fauci, an epidemiologist from CDC, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, began advising all Americans to wear masks. Before this, doctors in many hospitals have given an Interim method to reuse protective products after disinfection with ultraviolet germicidal lamps to deal with PPE shortages. It is believed that in the coming period when the production of masks can not fully meet the global need, the demand for ultraviolet disinfection equipment will still increase significantly.