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As the vaccination campaign to end the coronavirus pandemic rages on, XPRIZE, an organization holding million-dollar competitions continues to incentivize innovation and development to better the world. Their most recent contest, “$6M XPRIZE Rapid COVID Testing”, aimed to create game-changing COVID-19 testing solutions and named several winners.
One of the Open Innovation Track winners was TERA (TeraGroup), an Israeli company utilizing “Terahertz (THz)” waves technology, to produce a 1-3-minutes coronavirus breath test, named the BioSafety test. This simple and rapid BioSafety clearance test is meant to determine if an individual is Negative for COVID-19 and Clear to proceed.