Israeli firm developing 30-second Covid-19 breath test | Malay Mail

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MISGAV, July 24 — An Israeli company is developing a coronavirus breathalyser test that gives results in 30 seconds, billing it as a “front line” tool that can help restore a sense of normality during the pandemic. NanoScent, the firm making the test kits, said an extensive trial in Israel...

An employee demonstrates a coronavirus breathalyser test by exhaling into a small bag called the ‘Air Trap’ at the laboratory of NanoScent's headquarters in Misgav July 21, 2020. — AFP pic

NanoScent has been operating for several years, specialising in rapid recognition technology, including for medical purposes. Test subjects then inhale through the nose, hold their breath, close one nostril and exhale through the other, pushing breath through a handheld tube into a small bag called the “Air Trap”.

“We pick up on a pattern, we record that pattern and then we can detect if someone has, or is suspected to have, Covid-19.”

 

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