Equipment to measure severity of coronavirus patients

Photo taken in Kyoto on March 29, 2021, shows medical equipment announced by precision instrument maker Shimadzu Corp. the same day to predict whether a coronavirus patient will eventually develop severe symptoms. The equipment, developed jointly with Kumamoto University and AiSTI SCIENCE Co., and planned to be sold in June at the earliest, is capable of predicting the severity of the disease possibly within six minutes using the patient's blood or urine.