China’s embassy in Cairo offers thermal imaging camera to screen SCZone staff temperatures

China’s embassy in Cairo has on Wednesday provided the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone) with a thermal imaging camera to screen employees and visitors for fever, a common early symptom of the novel coronavirus.

Using infrared imaging, thermal imaging cameras are able to remotely monitor and roughly estimate a person’s body temperature from a distance by checking whether it appears elevated compared to the other people passing through the scanner.

The cameras will be used to screen employees and visitors in the southern section of the SCZone, for fever.