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The Ordnance Survey Ireland has made available linked open data on Covid-19 from the HSPC. The feature service contains the up to date Covid-19 Daily Statistics as well as the Profile of Covid-19 Daily Statistics for Ireland, as reported by the Health Surveillance Protection Centre.The Covid-19 Daily Statistics are updated on a daily basis, with the latest record reporting the counts recorded at 1pm the same day.
The communications regulator has approved plans to release extra radio spectrum to add capacity for mobile phone and broadband connectivity. The regulator plans to release radio spectrum in the 700MHz and the 2.6GHz bands to allow mobile operators to meet increased voice and data traffic. It also said it has liberalised the use of the existing 2.1GHz band so that it can be used for 4G connectivity and other technology, rather than just 3G.
Akkure, an Irish digital health start-up, has launched the ‘COVIDMedBot’, an online free personalised risk assessment and guideline tool for use during the COVID-19 pandemic. Akkure is based at NovaUCD, the Centre for New Ventures and Entrepreneurs at University College Dublin.
The Health Service Executive's Digital Academy is collaborating with medtech companies and start-ups to provide agile solutions to Covid-19 problems faced in clinical settings. Examples include pulse oximeters integrated with applications that can be remotely monitored for oxygen depletion in patients (thereby requiring hospital admission) and working with roboticists to develop sterilisation robots using UV wavelengths that can kill Covid19 but have sensory reaction when humans enter its…