Researchers from Connecticut-based Yale University has created a new way to determine if a person has acquired SARS-CoV-2, causing COVID-19. It turns out, a person’s saliva contains parts of the virus strands. Due to this conclusion, the university created its very own saliva-based COVID-19 test, and it is now approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Here’s how scientists want people to use it.

Is there a SARS-CoV-2 virus in a person’s saliva?

Truck driver Oswaldo Monroy, 62, is tested for COVID-19 at an International Brotherhood of Teamsters testing site, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Wilmington, near the Port of Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 25, 2020.
If a person wants to know whether he had acquired COVID-19, he must practice self-isolation and proceed to take a COVID-19 lab test. These tests include swabbing, rapid tests, or even blood tests.