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Latvia is pioneering an automated coronavirus testing station that can operate around the clock and virtually eliminate the risk of infection during the screening process, organizers told AFP on Wednesday.
The machine -- a blue box roughly two meters high and one meter wide -- has tested roughly 500 students and staff since it opened last week at the Pauls Stradiņs Clinical University Hospital in Riga.
Created by three Riga-based companies, the machine is initially to be used by university hospital employees but the firms are aiming to manufacture more units for other institutions in the capital and rural areas with limited access to testing.