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Monitoring and managing COVID-19 in our country is quite complex as it has a population of more than 1.3 billion, in addition to a huge population of livestock and pets. NRSC, ISRO customised geoportal and developed ‘Bhuvan-COVID-19’ at national level to track the pandemic and update common public on current situation.
The geoportal provides many other interesting graphic presentations at national level as part of sensitising common people on the COVID-19 situation on a regular basis, based on the data presented by MoHFW portal. While the COVID-19 dashboard depicts dynamic information of the status of the pandemic at national level, many state-level applications were developed and deployed.
Website link:
https://bhuvan-app3.nrsc.gov.in/corona/ https://www.isro.gov.in/covid19
DPIIT released a compendium of Startup Solutions for COVID-19
Supported by COVID-19 Taskforce
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges for the start-up ecosystem of India. The Government of India has joined hands with various stakeholders to offer support to start-up and trying to combat the pandemic using innovative solutions created by entrepreneurs. Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) released compendium of Startup Solutions for COVID-19 Supported by COVID-19 Taskforce under the following categories:
i. Crowd management
ii. Geofencing
iii. Logistics
iv. Movement tracking
v. Testing equipment
vi. Fake news detection
vii. Large area sanitization
viii. Critical care equipment
ix. AI technology for contactless entry
x. Personal protective equipment
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