A prototype breath analysing device which can instantly detect if a person has Covid-19 was on display in Dunedin yesterday, and could be a "game-changer" in how we live in the world with the virus.
New Zealand distributor of the device, Boskein Science, was at the Jade Star Childcare and Learning Centre in Caversham yesterday, giving teaching staff an opportunity to try it.
Boskein technical adviser John Rawcliffe said the device was designed in Finland and had been used in the medical field for the early detection of a large number of medical cases in recent years.
It had now been developed to detect Covid-19, and it could bring an end to the unpleasant and time-consuming nasal swabs used to detect the virus at present.
The prototype was now going through a regulatory approval process, and it was hoped it would become widely available in New Zealand as early as next month, he said.