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red and containment zones declared as a no-travel zone. This dashboard, first of its kind for Indian cities, assessed the local risk factors to give a city-scale projection of COVID-19 incidence while accounting for various social distancing scenarios. In addition to the epidemiological data, it also disseminated information about potential congestion zones and rerouting under different containment scenarios to the stakeholders.
For the general public, this dashboard provided risk indices based on various socio-economic indicators; ward-level information on the number of cases; current statistics of COVID-19 situation for all the districts of Gujarat; maps of the red, green and orange zone; COVID-19 hospitals; location of government testing laboratories; and an interactive slider to choose their travel paths in case they wanted to avoid travelling through a particular zone.
Website link:
https://news.iitgn.ac.in/2020/06/19/the-covid-19-dashboard-aiding-optimized-testing-and-post-lockdown- operations/
IIT Ropar brought out quarterly newsletter Prajwalam as COVID-19
Special
IIT Ropar had taken the double-prong strategy of protecting the health and academic interests of its community on the one hand and contributing to the national and local needs through innovation, research and collaboration. The quarterly issue of their Newsletter Prajwalam on July 2020 presented some of the innovations that the faculty and students of IIT Ropar have come up with; while a lot many were being worked upon. It was also heartening to observe that many of these innovations were being commercialised or being transferred directly to healthcare authorities making IIT Ropar’s mission of “Contributing to Society” and “Contributing to Nation” a reality.
Website link:
https://www.iitrpr.ac.in/sites/default/files/Prajwalam%20Volume%209,%20Issue%201,%20June%202020_0.pdf
IIT Roorkee developed COVID-19 website to create awareness
amongst the general public
To combat COVID-19, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee had developed a website which includes various innovations and social initiatives like low-cost portable and closed-loop ventilator; ‘Prana-Vayu’, a unique surveillance system; CoronaOven for sanitisation; ‘Powered Air
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