Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has unveiled what it claims is new technology which will change the face of its response to the coronavirus crisis.
There’s just one problem – the “state of the art” Covid-19 detector bears a striking resemblance to fake bomb scanners that have plagued the Middle East and other parts of the world for years.
The country’s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported the device had been developed by Iranian scientists and had the ability to detect the novel coronavirus on people and on surfaces at a range of up to 100 meters.
The detector, IRGC commander Major General Hossein Salami claimed, can detect contamination with 80 per cent accuracy in five seconds by “creating a magnetic field”.
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Source: The National