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India may have responded quickly to the problems posed by Covid-19 with the nation-wide lockdown, but enormous challenges to mitigate its spread remains. As states chalk out stringent surveillance and quarantine measures, the demand for digital services to complement these aggressive efforts have emerged in recent weeks. Be it to flag social distancing violations, monitor…
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With inmates huddled together in closely-knitted cells inside prisons, it is little wonder then that these facilities are vulnerable to COVID-19 outbreaks. Coupled with the apathetic approach towards the health and well-being of those incarcerated, managing a pandemic of this scale has been more challenging, particularly in containment zones. Some measures that are being considered…
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With inmates huddled together in closely-knitted cells inside prisons, it is little wonder then that these facilities are vulnerable to COVID-19 outbreaks. Coupled with the apathetic approach towards the health and well-being of those incarcerated, managing a pandemic of this scale has been more challenging, particularly in containment zones. Some measures that are being considered…
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Carnegie Mellon Unveils Five Interactive Maps To Display Real-Time Information On COVID-19 Maps
Carnegie Mellon University has released five interactive maps which will display real-time information on COVID-19 symptoms, doctor visits, medical tests and browser searches related to the virus. These interactive maps will highlight country-level data which will be used to forecast disease activity in the US. These interactive maps include data developed with the help of…
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Currently, there are many open source datasets and software to fight COVID-19. Open source software and collaboration have brought on multiple instances of innovation in the last decade. As we are in the middle of a global health crisis, the significance of the open-source software ecosystem is more critical than ever. There are automatically updating…
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Analytics solutions provider Manthan’s CEO Atul Jalan has teamed up with like-minded individuals from Bengaluru to launch an open community initiative called Thoda Bahut. Started to help communities most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, it brings together supplies, logistics, and funds for local and immediate intervention. Thoda Bahut is built on the fundraising platform GiveIndia.…
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As millions don masks across the globe, the propitious future of facial recognition technology may be left hanging in the balance. In a departure from WHO guidelines amid the Covid-19 pandemic, people have started adopting the practice of wearing masks in public places. Although difficult to ascertain its potency against coronavirus, this move may compromise…
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IIT Kharagpur Allocates Funding For Research Projects On COVID-19 Healthcare Technology Development
IIT Kharagpur has decided to allocate research funding for R&D work related to COVID-19. IIT Kharagpur submitted a list of projects to the IIT Council last week of which eight projects have been selected to be funded on COVID-19 healthcare technology development. In a recent tweet, the institution has confirmed the news by stating —…
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Apart from the collaboration with Google for developing a contact tracing app, Apple Inc. has recently launched an online tool that shows how people are moving around their communities amid the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Apple, the tool showcases a chart indicating changes in the number of requests made over time, allowing for percentage-based comparisons…
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A renowned Princeton mathematician, forever favoured by programmers, and a man who invented the Game of Life, John Horton Conway has died, at the age of 82, due to COVID-19 infection. Conway was a mathematician, who has made contributions in the areas like finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory,…
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