SHENYANG, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) — A robot designed to take throat swabs for COVID-19 nucleic acid tests has been deployed in the city of Shenyang in northeast China’s Liaoning Province as part of the latest citywide testing campaign. Photos of the robot, Lingcai, soon made headlines across the city, which has seen a resurgence of COVID-19 cases since December last year. Local medical staff hailed the robot invention, saying it limits person-to-person infections. It can perform quick sampling in a completely isolated environment so that neither medical workers nor those tested are at risk of contracting or passing on the…
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