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Published on 21 April 2020

A new biosensor for the COVID-19 virus

Dübendorf, St. Gallen und Thun, 21.4.2020 - A team of researchers from Empa, ETH Zurich and Zurich University Hospital has succeeded in developing a novel sensor for detecting the new coronavirus. In future it could be used to measure the concentration of the virus in the environment - for example in places where there are many people or in hospital ventilation systems.