The Defense Ministry says an Israeli team sent to India to test “diagnostic
technologies” for COVID-19 has wrapped up its mission and will return to Israel in the coming days.
A ministry statement says the team is bringing back 20,000 samples gathered from coronavirus patients to use in testing the technologies.
“The samples that were collected were inserted to systems based on artificial intelligence, enabling the [Directorate of Defense Research and Development] personnel and representatives of Israeli industries to begin processing and analyzing the data. This procedure will continue upon the return of the delegation to Israel,” the statement says.
Col. Asaf Maller, Israel’s defense attache to New Delhi, says the technologies could allow for rapid-fire testing.
“The goal is to bring to the world the technological capability to perform rapid corona[virus] tests within tens of seconds, which will enable the opening of airports, office buildings, schools, train stations and more,” the ministry quotes him saying.
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