FORGET the intrusion of a nasal swab for COVID-19 - a Dutch inventor is trialling a new "shouting booth" as an alternative way to quickly diagnose the infection.
The so-called scream test sees patients enter an airlocked cabin where they shout, scream or sing for a minute or two.
An industrial air purifier collects all of the emitted particles and then analyses them for COVID-19.
"If you have coronavirus and are infectious and yelling and screaming, you are spreading tens of thousands of particles which contain coronavirus," said the booth's creator, serial entrepreneur Peter Van Wees.
The COVID-19 scream test takes about three minutes, using a nanometre-scale device to conduct the screening.
Van Wees has partnered with a clinical trial company to collect evidence for the device's efficacy, with a prototype booth currently testing subjects adjacent to a COVID-19 testing centre in Amsterdam.
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