The company, “Kawasaki Heavy Industries,” which manufactured the automatic system, said it could be placed in a regular container on a truck and transported to stadiums, amusement parks and other places of gathering.
“Given the global trend, we need to increase the number of people undergoing screening and the demand for preventive screening is increasing,” Nurihisa told reporters during the presentation.
The government of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga faces criticism for the lack of checks the country is conducting.
His government is under pressure to assert its control over the pandemic while there is no time left to start the Olympics Summer scheduled in Tokyo Only less than 200 days.
The vaccination against the Coronavirus vaccine has not started in Japan yet.
Tamura said that the use of systems robot The examination may contribute to preserving the medical workforce as well as increasing accuracy in general.
The robot model presented today uses a human-driven robotic arm to take samples and perform a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay and can perform checks on up to 2,000 samples every 16 hours.
Suga said that his government aims to authorize the first vaccine to prevent “Covid 19”, and to start vaccination by the end of February, that is, months after these steps were taken in many other countries.
