Supplier of thermal scanners to Malaysia’s Health Ministry assures device keeps coronavirus at bay | Malay Mail

Sunday, 02 Feb 2020 07:08 AM MYTInframatrix managing director Richard Lee explains how a thermal imaging camera works at his office in Cheras January 31, 2020. — Picture by Hari Anggara

Lee is the managing director of Inframatrix Sdn Bhd that supplies thermal scanners to the Health Ministry and even trains health officials to operate the devices properly. While originally used for industrial applications, there are different variations of the scanners that are designed for medical purposes.

“The scanners are designed to detect individuals in large crowds with a higher than normal body temperature which indicates that said person could have a fever,” he toldLee, who is an electrical engineer by profession, said Inframatrix has supplied the MoH with thermal scanners since the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome outbreak in 2003.

Lee assured that such methods combined with other preventive measures employed by the MoH are why Malaysia’s borders are kept relatively safe from such outbreaks.

But actually, if someone is having a fever, logically this person will pop a panadol or something similar which will then bring the fever down. Virus is still there. You are just not detected

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