How Technology is Helping to Fight COVID-19

The rapid spread of the Coronavirus globally has forced countries to use every trick in the book to contain the disease. Every country is using range of technologies in their fight against the pandemic, whether its surveillance, robotics or violation of citizens’ privacy. mankind is dwelling on how its superior brain power can lead to advancements in technology in order to win over this novel coronavirus.

COVID-19 first appeared in China in January 2020 and has now spread over 195 countries with around twenty lakh confirmed cases and nearly one lakh deaths. The virus has brought virtual lockdown in the world. Despite the advances that mankind has achieved in technology and medical science, the only measure against the novel virus as of now is social distancing and isolation.

Nevertheless, after so many setback and obstacles, the human race is putting up a brave fight against the coronavirus by using new-age technologies to restore peace and sanity. These technologies are not only helping us fight the current health pandemic but will also change how we deal with recurrence of such health scare in the future.

So, here are some tech tools that are being used in different countries to fight coronavirus.

Drones

Connectivity is not just limited to internet, there are instances globally where connecting to affected areas and transporting required goods became difficult without physical presence. So a lot of countries are using drones for such particular cases.

In some of the severely affected areas, where humans were at a risk of catching the virus, drones came to the rescue. Drones are transporting both medical equipment and patient samples, saving time and enhancing the speed of deliveries, while preventing contamination of medical samples.

Drones were also flying with QR code placards that could be scanned to register health information. agricultural drones were spraying disinfectants in the countryside. Drones powered with facial recognition were also being used to broadcast warnings to the citizens to not step out of their homes and chide them for not wearing face masks.

One of the countries to thank for this technology and innovating way of dealing with such problems is Japan. antwork, a group company of Japanese dronemaker Terra Drone, carried medical samples and other essential materials in Xinchang when the city was grappling with the virus.