Welcoming India’s “incredible” in presenting a quick check for COVID-19, Israel expressed Wednesday the hope that joint efforts could bring “good news” to the world in a few months.
Israeli and Indian scientists are jointly working on an ambitious project to develop a rapid corona test that can provide results within tens of seconds.
The Directorate for Defence Research and Development (DDR-D), the Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMoD) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have completed their project to collect samples to verify and validate 4 Israeli diagnostic technologies, an WCO press said here.
“The goal is to bring to the world the technological capability to perform rapid Corona tests within tens of seconds, which will enable the opening of airports, office buildings, schools, train stations and more,” Col. Asaf Maller, Israel’s Defense Attache to India, was quoted in the statement as saying.
“The Indian for the task is amazing. All studies and progress agencies, adding Prime Minister Modi’s Scientific Adviser (Narendra), have joined the operation with full force. We hope that in a few months we can bring smart news to the world,” Maller said.
The Israeli team that left for India on July 26 will return in the coming days with more than 20,000 samples taken from PATIENTS with COVID-19, the resources said here.
“The purpose is to bring the technological ability to conduct immediate crown tests in a matter of tens of seconds,” Maller said. Since the beginning of the pandemic, DDR-D had tested dozens of diagnostic technologies.
Some of them have matured and passed initial trials in Israel, however in order to complete testing and prove their effectiveness, these had to be tested on a wide range of patients, defence ministry sources told PTI.
The 4 technological systems that are checked are: voice control, terra hertz wave alcohol control, insulation control and polyamine control.
Prime Minister Modi and his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu have had 3 talks since the outbreak of the pandemic and promised mutual assistance in dealing with the virus, participating in joint technology and clinical studies between the two countries.
“We are processing and analyzing the knowledge we have collected and will continue this procedure when we arrive in Israel. We are positive and hope that we can implement a formula for the diagnosis of coronavirus,” said the head of the Israeli delegation on behalf of DDR-D, Lt. Col. Yaniv Meirman, as cited in the IMoD press release.
The joint team included representatives of the Ministries of Defence, Foreign Affairs, and Health. They set up six drive-in sites in Delhi for sampling purposes, and two labs for data processing using technologies they took from Israel.
The Government of India also assigned hundreds of local professionals to collect the samples (50-100 per site), from thousands of volunteers via non-invasive means.
Four types of samples were collected from each patient: sound, saliva, breath and a swab test.
The activity was supervised by joint Indo-Israeli teams at all sites, ensuring that everyone complied with predetermined guidelines and regulation.
The collected samples were inserted into systems based on synthetic intelligence, allowing DDR-D and representatives of the Israeli industry to begin processing and analyzing the data.
This procedure will continue upon the return of the delegation to Israel, IMoD said.
We came to India to enrich Israeli diagnostic technologies and while there, we found real partners – partners who were fully committed to the success of the mission. We are in the midst of processing and analyzing the data that we have collected, and will continue this process upon our arrival to Israel”, Meirman noted.
“We are confident that in the short and long term we will implement an immediate diagnostic formula for coronavirus, which will further open up the Israeli economy, ‘open up’ the skies and damage caused by the pandemic,” he said.
The activity in India was conducted under the strict guidelines and regulation to ensure the safety and health of all those involved.The members of the delegation underwent three corona tests during their stay in India and were found to be negative for the virus, IMoD said.
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