COVID-19 Innovative Response Tracker

The State of Hidalgo copes with COVID-19 through science. Working in collaboration with the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and the Swiss Synchrotron (SLS) for the development of joint research and academic exchange. The Government of the State of Hidalgo in collaboration with the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) convened the scientific community in Mexico to participate in the first call for priority access to synchrotron light to combat COVID-19, with proposals aimed at generating a greater…

Development of a microsite to present the main financial data of the restructuring of the 2020 annual budget of the state of Nuevo León to address the coronavirus contingency.

Joint effort between the state government and sectors of society in several areas. Collaboration includes the following: Research with UANL for the strerilization and reutilization of medical-grade sanitary masks, research with Tec Salud for the tratment of hospitalized patients with blood plasma transfusions from recovered patients, coordination with Ternium for the adaptation of sport areas into Hospital Ternium, coordination with supermarkets for food support, collaboration with Farmacias…

Hospital restructuring plan of the Secretaría de Salud of Nuevo Leon to increase the care capacity of patients with COVID-19, which includes the equipment of Hospital Metropolitano, Hospital Tierra y Libertad, Hospital de Juárez, Hospital de Montemorelos, Hospital de Sabinas, the creation of a mobile hospital and the adequation of Universidad de Ciencias de la Seguridad as a designated space for the isolation of confirmed patients.

Nuevo León government installed a center where the lines of action that are implemented at the state level will be carried out to confront the global pandemic due to the COVID-19.

Creation of a common front between the governments of Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Durango and Michoacán to define six points to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

Government of Nuevo León developed several technological tools, such as an app within which users can access a daily update on the positive COVID-19 cases that have been identified in the state, as well as the press releases that the state government has issued in relation to COVID-19 and the responses to the pandemic, the Health department also developed a specialized website for the State's Department of Health which contains an integrated chat box and a questionnaire through which users can…

As Indore was the facing this type ( medical emergency) of calamity for the first time, nor the administration nor its population understood the seriousness of the issue or had any experience in managing this type of crisis .There were number of low income and high-density localities where the households did not have enough food supplies (rashan) to sustain them for such a prolonged period of lock down. The people used to store food supplied for just one week. In the locked down the small…

Aarogya Setu, a mobile app developed by the ministry of electronics and IT to help citizens identify their risk of contracting Covid-19 (coronavirus), has notched up more than 76 million downloads by 1st May 2020. The app is there on both Google Play (for Android phones) and Apple App Store (for ioS). It is available in 11 languages — 10 Indian languages and English. Aarogya Setu is designed to keep an user informed in case s/he has crossed paths with someone who has tested positive. The…

Citizen workshops are an essential piece of our local democracies. They allow live interactions, in-depth discussion, and help consensus emerge. Up until now, they were being held offline, whilst online platforms are usually reserved for indirect and asynchronous participation - think voting, surveys or participatory budgeting. However, the current crisis has made these essential in-person meetings impossible. CitizenLab's workshop feature has been designed to expand the scope of online…