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PM Modi calls for innovative ideas to check corona

Fight Corona Ideathon - Forge
Coronavirus: 5000 entries received for MHRD's Fight Corona IDEAthon, winner to get 7 lakh prize money
Hyderabad: Fight Corona virtual IDEAthon today, tomorrow
Fight Corona IDEAthon, a 2-day online ideathon to mitigate the uncertainties arising in light of the rampaging Pandemic
Forge Accelerator conduct ideathon to to tackle Covid-19 related issues

KSUM’s Break Corona platform to spur innovation

According to KSUM officials, the platform is looking at ideas and solutions that have been proven or used in some other scenario. These products should already have a Proof of Concept (PoC) and have potential usage in the fight against Covid-19. The mission is currently looking for ideas and products that support Covid-19 patients and those placed on quarantine. It is also looking at ideas to prevent community outbreak, logistics for distributing food, medicine and grocery, support vulnerable people like children and aged.

KSUM is also looking at ideas that can create job opportunities during lockdown and manufacture of Do It Yourself (DIY) products like masks, gloves and sanitizers.

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They have come up with ReMeDi® SCAN-CORONA platform, an innovative technology solution that makes the task of screening, testing, tracking and reporting extremely easy and manageable at a large scale.

TCS helping develop solutions to fight corona locally and globally

Body suits, sanitizers, and N99 masks: DRDO gears up to fight coronavirus

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Corona: IIT researchers developing robots to deliver food, medicines to patients in isolation wards

Whether plastic, metal components of robots has undergo sanitation after every delivery manually or automatically? Best is to automate full hospital.

If drones are used for delivery of essential services (to home quarantinees?, including banking?) then drones should also undergo sanitation after every delivery to quarantinee's home.

IIT and Stanford alumni develop machine to sterilise public places to prevent the spread of coronavirus
This human-shaped robot by IIT, AIIMS alumni can sterilise spaces to restrict COVID-19 spread. Here's how

According to the duo, Airlens Minus Corona's power lies in electrifying water droplets to kill Coronavirus. The innovators have come up with a way to kill the virus using charged or ionised water droplets. Water droplets can be ionised using 'Corona Discharge', they said. Such ionised water droplets can help in the oxidation of viral proteins into non-harmful molecules. The innovators believe that the electrification of water can work as a larger version of what an alcohol-based hand sanitiser can do in comparatively smaller spaces. This way, the oxidation technique can potentially sterilise an entire city.

5 new COVID-19 cases confirmed in Karnataka

Meanwhile, Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar in click their selfies using an app and send them to the government every one hour from home. The selfie or photo will have GPS coordinates so the location of the sender would be known, he said in a release. If those home quarantined failed to send selfies every one hour (except between 10 PM to 7 AM), then they would be shifted to government created mass quarantine facilities, he said. Such action would be taken even if wrong photos are sent, he said.

Drones to keep an eye on gatherings in Uttara Kannada

Helpline, e-passes for essential services in Delhi

Department of Science Technology okays tech that can clear room air in an hour

NEW DELHI: To ensure the well-being of the health staff, doctors and nurses working, the Department of Science Technology (DST) has approved a technology that can clean up the air and disinfect areas exposed to COVID-19 infection in hospitals and quarantine facilities.

The pilot project has been approved for 1,000 hospitals in Maharashtra. The technology, developed by Pune-based company Scitech Park, reduces the viral load of infected areas within a room significantly within an hour.

India taps location surveillance apps to keep virus in check
Manipal Group company develops selfie-based fool-proof tracking of home quarantine individuals

Research institutes join corona fight

BHUBANESWAR: Sixteen top biotechnology labs and research institutes under the Department of Biotechnology of the Union Government have joined hands to take the fight against coronavirus to the next level. The scientists will be focusing on three aspects - development of antibodies, trial of existing anti-viral drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration and, most importantly, genome sequencing. “A detailed proposal is being prepared by the consortium of labs at the national level.

Once the antibodies are discovered, those can be injected into a sick person to stimulate his/her immune system that would speed up recovery. “Besides, the testing of existing anti-viral drugs and formulations kept at different Government approved chemical libraries would be conducted. Like the anti-malarial hydroxychloroquine, there may be other anti-viral drugs with which Covid-19 cases can be tested.

We are awaiting for approval for clinical trial of the existing drugs,” the scientist added.

A channel to train healthcare personnel

Free ‘tele-consultation’ launched in Karnataka

This Is How Karnataka Is Using Technology To Tackle The Coronavirus Outbreak

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Research: With these machines, in 5 minutes, the physician will know the situation of the lungs and coronary heart of the affected person, it will likely be identified from the app