Published 16:29 IST, March 31st 2020

Coronavirus: Astrophysicist ends up in hospital after failed invention

While coronavirus outbreak has created immense fear, an astrophysicist's attempt at creating a device to defy COVID-19 failed as he ended up on a hospital bed.

Reported by: Vishal Tiwari
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Amid vel coronavirus pandemic, basic precautions require people to wash ir hands regularly, maintain social distance and restrain from touching ir faces. Following se rules, an astrophysicist ended up on a hospital bed after his attempt at inventing a device that would stop people from touching ir faces, failed. Wanting to create a necklace with an alarm, magnets astrophysicist was using got stuck inside his se.

Necklace to defy coronavirus

Dr. Daniel Reardon, a 27-year-old astrophysicist and research fellow at a Melbourne University, h started working on his invention along with his partner, as per reports. idea that h come upon his mind was to create a necklace that would ring an alarm, each time person wearing it would try to touch ir face. experiment started by testing and wearing magnets on ir wrists, and tragically h an abrupt end when Dr. Reardon tried putting magnets inside his se. Dr. Daniel reportedly clipped magnets first to his earlobes and n to his strils which led to things turning upside down when he clipped magnets to his or strils.

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Failed experiment

experiment turned upside down when astrophysicist put two magnets inside his se and one outside. However, on trying to remove magnet, two magnets inside attracted and got stuck inside his se. whole process went wrong when doctor tried to remove alrey stuck magnets inside using even more magnets. Dr. Reardon furr used a plier to remove magnets and h to be rushed to hospital when pliers also got magnetised. 

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astrophysicist reportedly said that on trying to pull and remove magnets, y clipped on to each or, making him lose his grip. He eventually ran out of magnets when two magnets got stuck in his left stril and one in his right. He furr hilariously ded that his partner took him to hospital where she works in as she wanted all her colleagues to enjoy a good laugh at rare accident. He also said that doctors found entire incident quite funny and said that  injury happened as a result of self-isolation and boredom.

process of removal of magnets stuck inside Dr. Daniel Reardon's se was accomplished after medical staff of hospital that he was brought to, applied an anestic spray and removed magnets manually. Dr, Reardon has reportedly decided to abstain from any furr experiments at this time. He has decided to work on revating his home.

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16:29 IST, March 31st 2020