2021-01-17 14:35:24 GMT2021-01-17 22:35:24(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
SHENYANG, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) A robot designed to take throat swabs for COVID-19 nucleic acid tests has been deployed in the city of Shenyang in northeast China s Liaoning Province as part of the latest citywide testing campaign.
Photos of the robot, Lingcai, soon made headlines across the city, which has seen a resurgence of COVID-19 cases since December last year. Local medical staff hailed the robot invention, saying it limits person-to-person infections.
It can perform quick sampling in a completely isolated environment so that neither medical workers nor those tested are at risk of contracting or passing on the virus, said Duan Weiying, a local medical staff member at a community COVID-19 testing site.