COVID-19 Innovative Response Tracker

A Singaporean coder has created a website that uses open data from the Singaporean government to map the daily status of every single corona virus patient, providing detailed geographic and demograhpic detail.

In just a few days, the National Agency for Education (RISE) in Sweden, in collaboration with 3 other organisations, have compiled support for schools on distance education on a new website, skolahemma.se. Skolahemma.se offers a unified place where school staff can turn to for further information on government information, educational material and support for distance learning with digital teaching materials. There are also simpler checklists on the schoolahemma.se to help prepare and organize…

Brazil has created an app to help share health information about the coronavirus. It contains information about symptoms, directions for sufferers, maps of nearby health units, and distributes official health news. It is a centralised digital hub that all citizens can access remotely that brings services together for their help.

A special 'epidemic supermarket' has been created by the teams Hubei Zhongbai Storage and Taoxianda (Ali) in less than 5 hours, which is completely unmanned - no shop assistants, cashiers, or even people re-shelving. This allows far reduced human contact in day to day life, reducing the transmission of the virus.

China is using unmaned delivery drones to deliver medical and biological materials to hospitals around Wuhan. The vehicles, created by JD Logistics, are unmanned, thus reducing the person-to-person contact times and freeing up other logistical resources.

China have used AI in combination with heat sensing technology to identify in real-time people in crowds with elevated body temperatures, thus allowing them to isolate people in crowds with a fever, and reducing the exposure of medical professionals to the public by using machines.