Body Temperature Checks With Hand-Held Digital Thermometers

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic cannot be overstated. The loss of human lives, the disruption of social and daily life, the burden on public resources and the economic crisis, just to name a few effects of this global public health crisis, will make their long-lasting mark on many aspects of our diverse ways of life, all over the planet.

Extraordinary times have called for extraordinary measures. Emergency powers have been invoked by governments in many different contexts, mostly reflecting the pre-existing organization of their respective countries.

Given the fact that most symptomatic patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus present fever, the measurement of body temperature became a common method of the detection of possible patients.