27-year-old Olivia Strong, a Scottish documentary producer, started a charity running challenge “Run for Heroes” on social media with the aim of raising £5,000 ($6,212), but it quickly went viral and has now raised over £5 million for UK healthcare workers fighting COVID.
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The Mohanlal's Viswasanthi Foundation donated the autonomous robot, developed by ASIMOV robotics, to the COVID ward of the Ernakulam government medical college hospital with the goal to reduce the interaction between health workers and COVID-19 patients.
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Trinity Diets is organising the Marathome, a Home Marathon, where people run at home using the Zoom app to connect with each other. The event is scheduled for Saturday May 2nd at 11am, for two hours.
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Powered by artificial intelligence, the Fever Screener identifies individuals with high body temperature, a major symptom of COVID, and could help scanning people flow at airports, hospitals, and other high-traffic areas.
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The platform launched by Sylvie McGowan, art therapist and designer interested in the unconscious processes happening when we dream and create, aims at being a library of dreams, where anyone can share their latest dream to see how our dreams change when we collectively experience a crisis like COVID.
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A new respirator for COVID patients that can be produced in large quantities has been successfully tested in vivo. The device could start to be mass produced in the next few days at a very low price. The design for this device comes from the Celera initiative, a collective of engineers, doctors, computer scientists known for producing innovative solutions.
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The audio artist Antoine Bertin used COVID-19's RNA sequence to create a series of audio meditations as an at home art project. The sounds are available on Spotify.
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Bobobox and Li Ka Shing Foundation in Collaboration with IDI Jawa Barat donated 100 sleeping pods for COVID-19 hospitals in Jakarta & West Java. The pods are intended for medical workers to take rest in between their long shifts.
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Zipline made its first coronavirus test flight on April 1 and will now deliver samples collected from more than 1,000 health facilities in rural areas to laboratories in the capital Accra and to Kumasi, the second-largest city in Ghana.
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Sensyne’s aim is to improve patient care, including those of the digitally disconnected, and enables people to volunteer, from their laptop on their sofa, or at a safe distance in their neighbourhood, to help look after those most vulnerable in our society.
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Specially trained medical detection dogs could be one solution to the crisis when it comes to the lack of testing resources that many countries are facing. These dogs, being tested by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Durham University, and the Medical Detection Dogs organisation, could be capable of sniff testing 750 people an hour for COVID.
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The ventilator, designed by Turkish technology firm BIOSYS, was produced with the help of drone manufacturer Baykar, major appliances firm Arçelik and defense giant Aselsan. All the ventilators will be donated to the Turkish Health Ministry for use in hospitals to fight COVID.
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This initiative is focused on helping people to detect symptoms of coronavirus by filling out a survey. In addition, they offer useful and interesting information regarding COVID-19 awareness and helpful links.
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The device by Vega Innovations, a subsidiary of CodeGen travel software solution Group, is designed to treat COVID patients in critical care and it is currently being tested in Sri Lanka.
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The website helps Portuguese people remain informed, safe, and healthy with answers to questions and tips from experts. Everything is written in Portuguese.
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The new website offers information regarding why recovered COVID patients should be able to donate plasma whilst outlining what conditions need to be met in order for an individual to be qualified to donate blood.
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Stanford Medicine partners with Fitbit and other tech and academic partners on the effort, and is now looking for participants to help refine the diagnostic tool. The idea is that smartwatches or other wearable sensors may have the ability to detect symptoms that indicate a viral infection before a person notices it themselves, like higher skin temperature or elevated heart rate.
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Africa University, just outside the eastern city of Mutare, has a Facebook feed full of pictures of the hand sanitiser the institution's department of public health and nursing is producing, while the Harare Institute of Technology has produced a prototype oxygen ventilator.
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NeXT Clean is a next generation sanitiser that can be delivered to your door and send in refills when you run low. The hand sanitiser is non-toxic and can be used on faces, but also to disinfect your home appliances, children's toys or food, and its ingredients are rated 100% allergen free by Mayo Clinic.
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Yoshioka's template design can be used to create a face shield in three simple steps from a clear sheet of PET or PVC plastic, printed on an A3 piece of paper.
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