Thai device tests for coronavirus in armpit sweat

Assistant professor Chadin Kulsing from Chulalongkorn University’s chemistry department inspecting a novel device that detects the Covid-19 coronavirus through specific odours, in Bangkok. — AFP

For Bangkok market sellers, the armpit sweat soaking their T-shirts during the humid monsoon season may contain subtle signs of coronavirus infection, local scientists have said.

Thai researchers are developing a sweat-based mobile virus detector, and road-tested it on shopkeepers at a Bangkok food market this week.