COVID-19

This is how your smartphone could be used to test for COVID-19

A woman checks her phone while waiting in line to be tested for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), outside a private lab in Tegucigalpa, Honduras June 12, 2020. REUTERS/Jorge Cabrera

In the future, your phone could be used to test for COVID-19 Image: REUTERS/Jorge Cabrera

Chris Elliott
Professor of Molecular Biosciences, Queen's University Belfast
Gonçalo Rosas da Silva
Early Stage Researcher in Metabolomics, Queen's University Belfast
Share:
Our Impact
The Big Picture
Explore and monitor how COVID-19 is affecting economies, industries and global issues
A hand holding a looking glass by a lake
Crowdsource Innovation
Get involved with our crowdsourced digital platform to deliver impact at scale
Stay up to date:

COVID-19

Have you read?
Coronavirus Covid-19 virus infection China Hubei Wuhan contagion spread economics dow jones S&P 500 stock market crash 1929 depression great recession
COVID-19 can survive on different surfaces for up to seven days. Image: New England Journal of Medicine
Don't miss any update on this topic

Create a free account and access your personalized content collection with our latest publications and analyses.

License and Republishing

World Economic Forum articles may be republished in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License, and in accordance with our Terms of Use.

The views expressed in this article are those of the author alone and not the World Economic Forum.

Related topics:
COVID-19Emerging TechnologiesTechnological TransformationDigital CommunicationsFourth Industrial Revolution
Share:
World Economic Forum logo
Global Agenda

The Agenda Weekly

A weekly update of the most important issues driving the global agenda

Subscribe today

You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in our emails. For more details, review our privacy policy.

From smallpox to COVID: the medical inventions that have seen off infectious diseases over the past century

Andrea Willige

May 11, 2023

About Us

Events

Media

Partners & Members

  • Join Us

Language Editions

Privacy Policy & Terms of Service

© 2023 World Economic Forum