The Netherlands will introduce rapid covered 19 breath tests to sites across the country to speed up the testing process and make it less intrusive.

Facilities in Amsterdam started using this spiral knows this week a machine which requires a person to breathe into it to indicate a possible coronavirus infection.

Within a minute.

Marie Can Vanda Lubin, from Amsterdam's Municipal Health Services says that after months of trials, Dutch health authorities found the machine to be reliable.

In the case of negative test results, a positive test needed to be followed by a regular PCR test to establish whether the detected infection was caused by the coronavirus.

I think that off course it's, it's... it's much nicer to have this test and then it's swap in your nose and your throat.

So I hope that people will, uh, visit our test facility more often.

Oh, that's a good thing.

Indonesia also launched a similar screening program at train stations on Wednesday.

They're Breathalyzer no Nas.

Geno's was developed by the University of Gadjah Mada, which says it has a least 95% accuracy.

Subjects are required to blow into a bag and the result is available in just two minutes, though again, results need to be confirmed with a Pacey artist.

Although there are shortcomings.

An epidemiologist from Australia's Griffith University says the Breathalyzer is promising and has potential to help with covered 19 detection.