Iran’s ‘amazing’ Covid-19 detectors identified as re-purposed fake bomb scanners


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