ACCRA, GHANA – The COVID-19 pandemic has forced Ghana to improve its health care system. This week the government pledged to build dozens of new hospitals throughout the West African nation. New technologies are also coming into play. The Silicon Valley company Zipline is using drones to shuttle medical supplies …
Read More »Drones Take Flight to Carry Covid-19 Tests to Labs in Africa
The Covid-19 pandemic has frozen much of the world’s aviation system, grounding fleets, shredding balance sheets, and stopping production lines as passenger demand craters. But in Ghana, a new fleet of aircraft took flight on Friday in an effort to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. These small drones, …
Read More »New AI-driven UAV drone to combat Covid-19
Kochi, April 17 (IANS): A startup at a village in Kochi has developed an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ( UAV) drone supported with artificial intelligence that can help combat Covid-19 by monitoring body temperature, supplying essential commodities and spraying disinfectants. The unmanned ‘Garud’ has been designed and engineered by AI Aerial Dynamics …
Read More »Downstream effects of COVID-19 on technology — GCN
Tech called up ‘in the war against the unexpected’ By Stephanie Kanowitz Mar 19, 2020 With much attention understandably focused on health care related to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19, a new report has spotlighted the downstream effects the outbreak could have on various technologies. …
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