By TAKAHIRO TAKENOUCHI/ Staff Writer
November 4, 2021 at 08:00 JST
A filter in the surgical face mask embedded with an antibody to react with the novel coronavirus displays a fluorescent color near the part around the wearer’s nose (circled by dotted line) to suggest the existence of viruses, after it was tested by Yasuhiro Tsukamoto, president of Kyoto Prefectural University, following a positive COVID-19 reading. (Provided by Yasuhiro Tsukamoto)
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