The platform provides a free interactive Public Map where anyone can see and register points of sale for masks, alcohol gel, gloves and psychological help throughout Brazil for free or for honest prices.
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Originally an app to reward users for time spent at the gym, LifePoints has released a new version to give points to users who are staying home. Points can be used to purchase things like discounts from LifePoints partners.
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Central Corona will connect people with potential COVID symptoms with doctors through a preferred chat application (WhatsApp or Telegram). Some questions will be asked to confirm if it is necessary to refer the call to a doctor. If it is, the conversation is directed to a request queue, which volunteer doctors have access to.
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The COVID crisis caused a critical shortage of blood in Ukraine. With the #taxidonor program, Uklon, the national network of gas stations, will provide donors with daily promotional codes to travel to blood donation centres and back home, while the national WOG network will provide fuel for vehicles. The company will provide 20,000 promotional codes in seven cities in Ukraine.
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Users will receive a browser alert every 30 minutes by the website to get to move. Many of the movements are minimal, the idea is just to force the heart to push blood into parts of the body it doesn’t need to while people are sitting still.
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The website enables Londoners to discover and connect with local businesses in their city remotely, to find grocers, butchers, beer & wine merchants, restaurants, and cafes that will deliver to your front door. And also to stay and entertained with virtual exercise & yoga classes, child tutoring, cooking lessons, and more.
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Adrian Cheng announced that he is supplying vending machines stocked with free medical-grade face masks across Hong Kong to help protect people from COVID. Launching in late April, 35 vending machines will be installed in designated service centres across 18 of the city’s districts.
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Working with the Vodafone Foundation, the ‘Corona-AI’ project will use the free DreamLab app, which crunches calculations using a smartphone’s computing power while its user sleeps. The app has already helped find potential new cancer drugs and is now aiming to help in the fight against COVID.
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Autistica's team shared a video to show how they are coping in these uncertain times and asks people to help by sharing their own best ways to cope with the situation, and by taking on a fundraising challenge to support autism research during the World Autism Awareness Month
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The company's main product, Hilab, is a portable, connected laboratory capable of instantly detecting infectious diseases through non-invasive blood tests. The COVID testing set up includes the mini lab and the test kits. The first wave of tests should be ready by mid-April.
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The app provides people with essential skills to adapt and develop mental resilience during times of change, by offering access to wellbeing content, daily activities to work and live well, developed by experts.
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Indian Railways’ new mobile doctor booth called CHARAK allows for check-ups requiring zero direct physical contact. This permits medical staff to abandon single-use protective clothing, making it environmentally friendly and less resource intensive.
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Researchers from biotech startup Biobot Analytics are working with a team from MIT, Harvard University, Brigham and Women’s Hospital to measure how prevalent COVID is in a given community through the use of wastewater.
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The app system accurately measures patterns and volume of breath using a wearable sensor, a dedicated smartphone application and a cloud infrastructure to deliver information and alerts to the medical team in real time. The app features a unique algorithm for early detection of respiratory aggravation.
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The digital rooms enable doctor offices to reduce the spread of COVID in waiting rooms. Patients call the reception from their home, get a personal waiting number and a link via SMS to check the status online and can then enter the medical practice after being called, when their turn comes.
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The app aims to protect essential workers on the frontlines - in food service, grocery, delivery, retail and facilities - with high-impact COVID training delivered via text message, and it’s completely free.
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Volare Sports launched the ‘CoronaRun Half Marathon’ that involved over two dozen runners running in isolation. They competed in a half marathon race in the Netherlands on April 4th with each athlete racing around his/her home area in compliance with government directives. The runners timed themselves and, via the GPS system, clocked their finishing times.
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Foster+partners shared a template for a general-purpose visor that can be cleaned and reused, composed of just three pieces, with the aim of facilitating quick mass production of the visors for healthcare professionals.
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CGI influencer Knox Frost, an artistic rendering of a young man who has over a million followers on Instagram, partnered with the World Health Organization to spread awareness about COVID to youngsters.
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Bloom Energy is collecting and refurbishing some of the thousands of ventilators that currently sit in storage because they have reached their end-of-service life, to send them back out to hospitals in dire need.
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