Conglomerate Vingroup presents the token of the COVID-19 breath testing system to the Health Ministry (Photo: VNA) 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.
Vingroup has todate contributed close to 2.29 trillion VND to the country’s COVID-19 fight.
Of particularnote, it presented 4 million doses of vaccine costing nearly 500 billion VND tothe MoH, and provided 20 billion VND for clinical trials of the homegrowncandidate vaccine COVIVAC, which is being developed by the ministry’s Instituteof Vaccines and Medical Biologicals (IVAC). The group also donated medicalsupplies worth 30 billion VND to help Bac Giang and Bac Ninh provinces copewith spreading COVID-19 outbreaks./.
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