App that detects COVID via eye-scan in three minutes introduced

According to the foreign news agency, a company named Semic RF has developed its scanning app with colleagues in the United States and, pending regulatory approval, hopes to start rolling it out there by the end of next month, says its managing director, Wolfgang Gruber.

“We managed to isolate COVID-19 from over two million different shades of pink,” Gruber told.

He said that the app uses an image of the eye taken from a smartphone and diagnoses the virus through symptomatic inflammation (pink eye).

He says the app, already tested on over 70,000 individuals, can process up to a million scans per second and the option to expand that capacity further - potentially allowing crowds back into mass-attendance events like concerts and football matches.

“You take your app, take a picture of both eyes, send it for evaluation, and then you can have the evaluated result stored as a QR code on the tested person’s smartphone,” Gruber added.

The app is initially being targeted at companies and commercial users, for $570 per month, with a later rollout to private individuals planned.