Singapore provisionally approves 60-second COVID-19 breathalyser test
Singapore authorities have provisionally approved a COVID-19 breathalyzer test that aims to show whether someone is infected with the coronavirus in under a minute, according to the local start-up that developed the product.
Using these breathalysers will enable COVID-19 testing to be done much faster and more efficiently. (Photo: Screengrab from Youtube via The Straints Times)
Singapore (VNA) - Singapore authorities haveprovisionally approved a COVID-19 breathalyzer test that aims to show whethersomeone is infected with the coronavirus in under a minute, according to thelocal start-up that developed the product.
Breathonix, a spin-off company from the NationalUniversity of Singapore, said it was working with the health ministry to run adeployment trial of the technology at one of the city-state's border pointswith Malaysia.
The breath analysis will be carried out alongside thecurrent compulsory COVID-19 antigen rapid test.
The breath test achieved more than 90 percent accuracyin a Singapore-based pilot clinical trial, the company said last year.
People simply exhale into a disposable one-way valvedmouthpiece that is connected to a breath sampler. A mass spectrometer analysesthe invisible particles called volatile organic compounds (VOC) in a person'sexhaled breath.
A healthy person will have a different VOC signaturefrom someone who is ill, and different illnesses produce different signatures.The total time from breath sampling to results takes less than a minute.
Any individual with a positive breathalyser resultwill need to undergo a confirmatory PCR swab test.
Breathonix is in discussion with several local andoverseas organisations to use the system, given its strong commercialinterest./.
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Using these breathalysers will enable COVID-19 testing to be done much faster and more efficiently. (Photo: Screengrab from Youtube via The Straints Times) 
