Ticket scanning machines are currently a common and practical way of providing automated access at airport gates, metro systems, theatres, and many other public buildings, ANA reports.
It is not hard to imagine how, if built into such a common and easy-to-use machine, a technological device or “detector” could, at the same time as it lets people into an area, also test them for Covid-19. Such a device – fast and instant and, above all, without the complicated procedures seen in recent months – is the aim of a research team currently working at the University of Oxford.
Achilleas Kapanidis, a professor of Biophysics at a Department of Physics at the university, who takes part in the research team working to develop such a revolutionary technology, spoke to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA) about the work to develop a test of this kind.
Kapanidis confirmed that the application of such technology at gateways and transit points “can be developed accordingly and help a great deal”. It could, he explained, be possible in the future, so that “sampling, imaging, and analysis of images (s.s. of virus particles) can be done outside the laboratory and perhaps without the need for specialist personnel.”
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