A newly developed saliva test to diagnose COVID-19 correctly identifies evidence of the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus in the human body within a second, 96 percent of the time, and also diagnoses a variety of other viruses, according to Israel’s biggest hospital, Sheba Medical Center.
Israeli researchers from the ‘New Sight’ company working at Sheba who developed the test say the patient simply rinses his mouth with saline solution, then spits into a test tube. The tube is then placed into a device that emits light, and analyzes the reflection received from the substance in the tube, according to which the device processes the data received and thus determines whether the patient is infected with COVID-19, or not.
