Vingroup to present COVID-19 breath testing system to Health Ministry
Local conglomerate Vingroup has successfully reached a deal with Singaporean firm Breathonix to bring to Vietnam a COVID-19 breath testing system costing over 460 billion VND (20 million USD).
Conglomerate Vingroup presents the token of the COVID-19 breath testing system to the Health Ministry (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - Local conglomerate Vingroup has successfully reached a deal withSingaporean firm Breathonix to bring to Vietnam a COVID-19 breath testing systemcosting over 460 billion VND (20 million USD).
Comprising 30testing machines and disposable mouthpieces capable of collecting 2 millionsamples, the system will be handed over to the Ministry of Health (MoH) uponits arrival in the country.
The BreFence™ GoCOVID-19 breath testing system quickly produces results in an accurate andnon-invasive manner. The test has received provisional authorisation fromSingapore’s Health Sciences Authority (HSA).
It operates bydetecting volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in a person’s exhaled breath thatare produced by biochemical reactions in human cells.
A person need onlyblow into a disposable one-way valve mouthpiece connected to a high-precisionbreath sampler. The exhaled breath is collected and fed into a cutting-edgemass spectrometer for measurement.
A proprietarysoftware algorithm analyses the VOCs biomarkers and generates results in lessthan a minute, with an accuracy rate of 90 percent.
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Conglomerate Vingroup presents the token of the COVID-19 breath testing system to the Health Ministry (Photo: VNA) 
