The pandemic which brought the world to a screeching halt more than a year back, also accelerated the progress of health-tech, by opening doors for apps as well as devices meant to track infections. So far breathalysers and devices designed to detect covid symptoms from a person's voice have emerged from the Middle East, and the deployment of wearables to monitor infected patients is also underway.

Platforms which provide access to medical record and vaccination registries, have made traveling safe and convenient by facilitating quick verification of an individual's health. To scale up precision and to cut down the time consumed for covid tests, Turkish scientists have now created a new device, which can deliver results within 10 seconds as opposed to three days taken by the RTPCR method.

The gadget called Diagnovir, is also painless as compared to the existing process which requires nasal swabs, since this innovation only needs oral samples. Virus proteins are linked to the device, and optical signals emitted from it are used to identify if a person is infected or not.

Covid positive cases are spotted by the machine in just 10 seconds, while negative results are confirmed within 40 seconds. This procedure isn't just super-quick, but it also has an accuracy of 99%, which gives it a sharper focus on infections as compared to PCR tests.

Even before it received a shot in the arm thanks to an approval from Turkey's health ministry, Diagnovir had been tested on 1,200 people, who attended a graduation ceremony in several sessions. The swift testing mechanism seems poised to replace the PCR process, since it has already triggered curiosity among airport authorities and even the German football league.

Turkish inventors have recently created a buzz with other products like an 'electric nose' to find covid symptoms within minutes. A Turkish-origin duo in Germany had also played a major role in developing the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine last year.