COVIDD-19 testing will soon be done with smartphone

All of us hope that COVID-19's pandemic dot has been achieved, as the World Health Organization itself claims, and is moving toward its decline.

But if the disease that has infected almost 300 million people in the world, causing about 5.5 million victims in two years, continues to disturb the following public opinion, there will be a safer, quick and economic diagnostic weapon, where the protagonist is the cell phone we all have in our pocket.

A subx0-intelligent cell phone”, of course, with a good camera, which, along with a laboratory kit and a amount of saliva, will soon reveal the positiveness of the suspicious person.

The research that has enabled this technology comes from the University of California, and is already published in a “peer-review”, so verified, in the science magazine Jama Network Open. According to authors in question, the test will have the efficiency of a molecular test. PCR, and the answer will only be in 25 minutes.

The finger for diagnosis, which can be used consistently, costs about 90 euros, and is made up of heating pillars and LED lights, which, with the help of an intelligent phone camera, shows the dependence on saliva reaction with a chemical component, thus determining the positive.

The results are then processed by an app called Bacticount, which can be used freely by all. All this procedure, according to authors, does not last more than 25 minutes.

By the time statistics say, half the population has a smartphone, diagnostics with new technology would help reduce costs, as well as a better definition of the pandemic situation even in countries where testing is widespread is very low, for lack of laboratorys or a large geographical distance from residential centers.

Tests can be conducted at home at a cost of about 6 euros each, while according to authors, the results have shown an accuracy of nearly 100%, including any version of the virus.