Saudi Arabia: Students Invent COVID Monitoring Device Published January 28th, 2021 - 09:00 GMT
The project was completed within two months, and is now entering the marketing and sales phase, the team said. (Shutterstock)
Highlights
Their design combines temperature detection with an alert mechanism and sanitization system that can disinfect belongings, such as cellphones and wallets, using ultraviolet light.
A group of Saudi students have developed a device that scans patients as they arrive at public places, such as health clinics, and alerts staff if a visitor’s temperature is unusually high.
A fever, or elevated temperature, is a common symptom of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Amid growing wave of scam, Saudi man loses thousands to fraudsters posing as job recruiters on LinkedIn
Updated 28 March 2021
March 28, 2021 00:05
RIYADH: Fraudsters are inventing new ways to con people out of their money by using social media websites and fake job offers to lure in unsuspecting Saudis.
As many companies in the Kingdom move towards increasing their quota of skilled workers, Saudis are seeking better job opportunities and using special job sites to find work.
In the past few days, a video widely circulated on social media showed a young man named Ammar who said that he applied for a job on LinkedIn to work for NEOM Company through a recruitment agency.