Technological Driven Strategies to Fight Against COVID-19

Technological driven Strategies to fight against COVID-19

Compiled By:

Dharati Dholariya Assistant Professor

School of information Technology and Cyber Security

Raksha Shakti University

Lavad,Gandhinagar

List of Articles:

1) Technology As a Helping Hands during Corona Pandemic

Author: Ms.Dhara Shah,M.Tech-II,SITCS

2) China’s Technological Fight against Corona

Author : Ms. Shivangi Mehta,M.Tech-II,SITCS

3) Various Technologies used by Emerging Startup for analysis,Diagnosis and research related to Corona.

Author : Mr.Himanshu Prajapati,B.Tech-VI,SITCS

4) CORONA: Comparison between Steps Taken by Different Countries and Its Effect

Author : Ms. Mayuri panchal,M.Tech-II,SITCS

5) Role of Doctors in the lock down situation

Author : Mr. Rushi Mamotra,M.Tech-II,SITCS

Technology – As a Helping Hands during Corona Pandemic

Author: Ms.Dhara Shah,M.Tech-II,SITCS

Today, sitting under the roof at my home due to lockdown while holding video-conferencing sessions and virtual house parties with long-lost friends, a sudden thought that struck my mind was: what if this happened in 2000 before the smartphone era started? Many of the digital tools that we are using to keep ourselves connected to others did not exist back then or were available to only a few.

But the connectivity that we have today gives us ammunition to fight this pandemic in the ways that we never thought can be done before. Smartphone apps, data analytics, and artificial intelligence all are here to find and treat people with an infectious disease far more efficiently.

Ever since the coronavirus outbreak in India, the government authorities have taken several steps across India to curb the spread and make residents aware of the COVID-19 virus.

With several initiatives at the place, it can be confusing for someone as to where to look for the right information and what services can be used easily. So, here is a compilation of some of the COVID-19 tech-based services launched by the government of India and other authorities or companies in the past few weeks.

Dashboards:

World Health Organization’s Situation Dashboard provides the latest updates on the novel coronavirus outbreak. These include updated numbers of infected people, deaths, affected countries and other related data regarding the COVID-19 outbreak. There are many map tracking tools and apart from viewing, locating and reaching the nearest testing lab, MapmyIndia’s COVID-19 live Dashboard provides information about isolation and treatment facilities by government and private players. Apart from obtaining critical information, users can also add photos and post a review of a testing center based on the amenities available and hygiene. The app also provides COVID-19 live Dashboard which gives latest updates on the spread and mitigation of Coronavirus in India — confirmed cases and number of patients recovered, government-authorized testing/treatment facilities across India and much more.

Chatbots:

The world’s largest instant messenger tied up with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to make a chatbot service that answers user's questions on COVID-19. The Indian government has also set up a chatbot that is created by Reliance Jio-backed Haptik Technologies called MyGov Corona Helpdesk, which works through WhatsApp to provide verified information to users in India.

It includes symptom checks, preventive measures, myth busters, health and travel advisories, official government helplines, links to public health resources, and more.

Drones:

Drones have the ability to play a key role in combating the coronavirus. Drone startups in India are working alongside authorities providing services such as disinfecting contaminated areas, managing crowds and delivering medical supplies.

Corona Cavach:

This location-based app by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) is in beta and is listed on the Google Play Store. The app uses your phone's GPS location to track the user and check if they’ve come in contact with a COVID-19 positive person.

Aarogya Setu:

Aarogya Setu is a mobile application developed by the Government of India to connect essential health services with the people of India in our combined fight against COVID-19. It is aimed at augmenting the initiatives of the Government of India, particularly the Department of Health, in proactively reaching out and informing the users of the app regarding risks, best practices and relevant advisories on COVID-19.

Flipkart, Zomato and others are operating in India Talking about services, E-commerce firms such as Amazon, Grofers, Flipkart, Bigbasket and others are operating in their Fastrack mode. Although you may not get the non-essential items, the basic food items are available with most of them. One can order food from Zomato, Swiggy or use services like Dunzo during these times

Social Media as a good partner!

Nowadays, Social media is one of the best ways to share news, especially if you are trying to alert people of something serious in a quick manner. Whether it is COVID-19 news from various states or news on a national scope.

The news of how the number of people got affected by the virus made people aware of the situation that has been constantly deteriorating the sense of normalcy across the nation.

China’s Technological Fight against Corona

Author : Ms. Shivangi Mehta,M.Tech-II,SITCS

Like any new search, today when I searched for COVID-19 on google, the screen splashed out with a red alert of Coronavirus Disease. The disease that originated from China caused a respiratory illness with symptoms such as a cough, fever, and in more severe cases, difficulty in breathing to lots of people worldwide. You can protect yourself only by washing your hands frequently, avoiding touching your face and close contact with unwell people. Here the jargon Quarantine became the centre of public attention.

As China institutes the largest quarantine in human history, locking down more than 50 million people in the country, those who have recently been to Wuhan are being tracked, monitored, turned away from hotels and placed into isolation at their homes The lists of hundreds of people from Wuhan are circulated containing sensitive personal information including addresses, phone numbers, national ID numbers, dates of birth and occupations.

People in China were using mobile phone apps to follow and perhaps help to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The Chinese government along with the country’s two technology giants Alibaba Group and WeChat rushed to fight against the pandemic. They created color-based systems that record the health of individuals and identify carriers of the coronavirus. Individuals are asked to report recent travel outside the city, as

well as symptoms of flu, such as high body temperature or strong cough.

After completing the questionnaire, users receive a mobile phone message that includes a color-based QR code related to the health condition they described. Users with a red code are told to quarantine themselves for 14 days and continue reporting their condition by using Alibaba's DingTalk messaging app. Users with a yellow code are told to stay in quarantine for seven days, while those with a green code can travel freely.Alibaba

also built an AI-powered diagnosis system and claimed 96% accuracy at diagnosing the virus in seconds.

Mobile networks in China have also released tracking features. China Unicom and China Telecom - both state-owned telecom operators — are asking people to put in the last few digits of their ID or passport number, which will then be used to track a person’s whereabouts. They will get messages outlining where they have been. Again, the feature could be used if a building has a strict restriction on people entering who haven’t been in quarantine for 14 days.MicroMultiCopter, also in Shenzhen, is

deploying drones to transport medical samples and conduct thermal imaging.

UVD robots from Blue Ocean Robotics use ultraviolet light to autonomously kill bacteria and viruses. With a noticeable use of technology and AI, China’s surveillance system used facial recognition technology and temperature detection software from SenseTime to identify people who might have a fever and be more likely to have the virus.

So,All these technologies have helped china to fight against COVID-19 and wuhan being the starting centre of corona is now being Corona free as they are using technological alternatives in their daily routine.

Various Technologies used by Emerging Startups for analysis,Diagnosis and research related to Corona.

Author :Mr.Himanshu Prajapati,B.Tech-VI,SITCS

AI/Bioinformatics/ML/DL/Data Science technologies used by Various Institute and Industries

1. AI Cures https://www.aicures.mit.edu/

It is a group of machine learning and life science researchers who are collaborating on developing machine learning methods for finding promising antiviral molecules for COVID-19 and other emerging pathogens.

2. Kiwi Data Science It leverages AI and advanced statistical techniques to vast amounts of data and develop solutions that allow their clients to

extract meaningful information and knowledge. For covid-19 visit https://covid-19.kiwidatascience.com/

3. Korkin lab

It provides a comprehensive structural genomics and interactomics road-maps of 2019-nCoV and uses these information to infer the possible functional differences and similarities with the related SARS coronavirus. All data are made publicly available to the research community at http://korkinlab.org/wuhan

4. Analysis by Technology review All of their reporting on the COVID-19 outbreak, provided for readers. https://www.technologyreview.com/collection/coronavirus/

5. Kgp Hacks Corona (IIT Kharagpur) IIT Kharagpur’s Undergraduate Students Council has launched KGP Hacks Corona, an initiative for the IIT KGP community to build software and data solutions aimed at tackling challenges https://kgpchronicle.iitkgp.ac.in/kgp-hacks-corona

6. NVIDIA NVIDIA will provide a free 90-day license to Parabricks to any researcher in the worldwide effort to fight the novel coronavirus. Based on the well-known Genome Analysis Toolkit, Parabricks uses GPUs to accelerate by as much as 50x the analysis of sequence data. https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2020/03/19/coronavirus-research- parabricks/

7. Analysis by University of Cambridge

Machine learning techniques can help determine the most efficient course of treatment for each individual patient on the basis of observational data about previous patients, including their characteristics and treatments administered. machine learning can help to answer questions like “what-if” about each patient, such as “What if we postpone a couple hours before putting them on a ventilator?” or “Would the outcome for this patient be better if we switched them from supportive care to an experimental treatment earlier?” The University of Cambridge is coordinating a range of activities to address COVID-19. Providing wide range of worthwhile projects.https://cam.ac.uk

8.Article by Matissa Hollister – AI can help with right human input. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/covid-19-crisis-artifi cial-intelligence-creativity/

9. Semantics Scholar A free, open resource for the Global Research Community in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.https://pages.semanticscholar.org/corona-research

AI powered Industry standing against COVID-19

-DeepMind

-Nanox

-Benevolent AI

-EndoAngel Medical Technology Company

-SRI Bioscience and Iktos

-Alibaba

-Insilico Medicine

-Baidu

-Deargen

-Bluedot

-Terra Drone

-Blue Ocean Robotics

CORONA: Comparison between Steps Taken by Different Countries and Its Effect

Author : Ms. Mayuri Panchal,M.Tech-II,SITCS The world is preparing to halt the coronavirus that has infected over 1,039,158 and more individuals and died more than 55,163 and many others.Many countries have effectively closed their borders to all but their citizens required strict restrictions on internal travel and directed people to stay in their homes. An effective way to stop COVID-19 is social distancing if people get to interact with a virus that has spread so far. Here I write about the top 4 countries that are affected by COVID-19.

U.S.

The U.S. has some 245,442confirmed cases, and at least 6,098 people have died. Cases have been found in 50+ states.

The government has not declared remarkable across the nation measures to contain the spread of the virus, past limiting travelers from specific countries from entering the

U.S. Limitations or control measures have mostly originated from state and nearby experts.

On 2nd April,2020, New York Gov. announced a “containment area” with a one-mile radius in New Rochelle, in suburban Westchester County. The National Guard has been deployed to the containment area to deliver food to homes and help with the cleaning of public spaces. All schools, churches, community centers within that radius will be closed and large gatherings halted, measures that are set to last for two weeks. Number of universities across the U.S. have canceled in-person classes. President Trump said that he will ask Congress to pass a payroll tax cut and relief for hourly wage earners, to assist workers who may be squeezed financially by the corona virus outbreak.We are going to take care of and have been taking care of the American public and the American economy Trump said.

Effects: The US takes too long to declare the lockdown and a lot many people get affected. American economy is experiencing an outbreak. A major coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. is like a big snowstorm that shuts down most economic activity and social communication only until the snow is cleared away.

Italy

Italy has more than 115,242 cases and 13,915 deaths related to the virus, mostly in the North. The number of cases there has jumped significantly in recent days. The Italian government announced excellent measures to contain the virus that first spread there in late February. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced all of Italy a red zone — meaning people should stay home except for work and other emergencies.

Public gatherings have been banned and freedom of movement sharply curtailed. All domestic sporting events in the country have been suspended until conditions get stable.

Italy has the highest death rank. The country has the second-oldest population on earth, and its young tend to combine more usually with the retired, like their grandparents.

Effects: Impact on sectors like manufacturing, construction, retail and hospitality is huge. Risks of an economy slipping into a recession increase manifold, leading to a spike in job losses. Daily wage workers and migrant laborers are

particularly hard hit as major employers like manufacturing and construction companies cut operations significantly.

China

China has had more than 81,620 cases and more than 3,322 deaths since the coronavirus emerged in the city of Wuhan in December. People in Wuhan and elsewhere in Hubei province have been largely confined to their homes for almost 50 days — a policy that is controlling the movements of tens of millions of people.

The provincial government in Hubei began enforcing round-the-clock closed management of all residential complexes, banning the private use of cars, forbidding residents from leaving their apartments without permission and requiring buyers of cold medicine to expose their temperature, location and credentials product at the pharmacy. Many community officials began buying and delivering groceries and medication for residents in their jurisdiction. Many residents in Wuhan have become reliant on delivery workers on scooters and motorcycles to deliver food or other necessities. Hospitals also rely on those couriers to deliver medical supplies, in which case the drivers wear hazmat suits.

Chinese governments also built two hospitals in Wuhan in just over 1 week. Healthcare mechanics of all-over China were sent to the outbreak’s center. The government started an unusual effort to track connections of confirmed cases. In Wuhan, more than 1800 teams of five or more people tracked tens of thousands of connections.

Chinese hospitals rushing with COVID-19 sufferers a few weeks ago now have vacant beds. They advised that staying home has done self-isolation or self-quarantine.

Effects:Growth in services production contracted 13 percent in the first two months, according to official data. Coupled with the industrial production figure, the data suggest that China’s gross domestic product contracted 13 percent during the first two months of the year, according to Capital Economics.

India

Over 1,500 people under observation for coming in connection with 73 positive cases of coronavirus, as reported by the Union Health Ministry. 10.5 lakh people screened so far at 30 designated airports in India, says the

ministry. 4000 people got affected and 100 people died due to this virus.

Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways advised states and Union Territories to take all steps for sanitization of public transport vehicles and terminals. This is to ensure sanitation of seats, handles and bars at all bus terminals are disinfected. The ministry also suggested that public transport should display public health messages in vehicles, bus terminals, and bus stops and asked states and UTs to take expeditious action and mobilize all necessary support in this regard.

All educational institutions, stadiums and sports clubs in Srinagar are closed from till further orders amid the coronavirus scare as a precautionary step, the city administration has said.

The Corporation also ordered the cancellation of all sports events within its limits and phased separation of flea markets, including weekly markets, with an instant result. It has also issued an advisory asking people to desist shopping, especially eatables and garments, from roadside vendors.

On 24 March, the Government of India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi commanded a nationwide lockdown for 21 days, limiting action of the entire 1.3 billion population of India as a defensive measure against the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in India.

The order issued by the Home Ministry on 24 March allowed the functioning of shops dealing with food items as well as the manufacturing units and transportation of essential goods However, the lack of clarity on "essential goods meant that the policemen on the streets stopped workers going to factories and the trucks carrying food items. Food industries also faced shortages of labor because the workers were unable to reach workplaces and the factory managers faced the fear of legal action. The Ban on people, from stepping out of their homes. All services and shops closed except hospitals, banks, grocery shops, and other essential services, Closure of commercial and private establishments (only work-from-home allowed).

Effects: PM Narendra Modi takes efficient steps to stop the corona virus and it works after 12 days of lockdown coronavirus cases decrease. Every industry suffers due to lockdown but people's life is more important than the economy as per India’s honorable PM.

* The numbers given are approximate and depending on the date(5th march,2020) the article is written by Author.

Role of Doctors in the lock down situation

Author : Mr. Rushi Mamotra,M.Tech-II,SITCS

Today when the country is suffering from such a global epidemic, Doctors and nurses are ready to save people. They treat patients like they are family members.

Medical staff in the ward at hospital

Doctors and medical workers in India are being excluded from communities, evicted from their homes and have to sleep in hospital bathrooms and on floors over fears they may be carrying corona virus.

Today transportation has been stopped even though if we talk about the primary health center in the village, the medical staff of the center are living far away they used to come to their allotted center at their own risk. My father is in the medical field. He used to go 30 Km far away from the home. He goes everyday with full of happiness. I have no words for appreciation.

As the corona virus pandemic has begun to fully take hold, with almost 1,000 reported cases, and the entire country of 1.3 billion people has been placed under the world’s largest lock down, fear has gripped India, particularly because of

concerns that population density and poor sanitation. However, medical staff are ready to help and save people..

Iranian doctor, Dr Shirin Rouhani lost her life while treating coronavirus patients. Due to the lack of doctors and medical staff to assist such a large number of patients, she kept treating patients until her last breath. She herself was on IV while treating patients.

Dr. Shirin Rouhani was a physician and general practitioner of Shohada Hospital in Iran, and she lost her life to corona virus. Although she was moved to different hospitals, she died serving her country’s people in the fight against the deadly corona virus.Women who work as private ayahs — domestic servants — in hospitals described how they too had been driven out of their homes in the past few days. Kajori Haldar, 48, an ayah at a Calcutta Medical College and Hospital, said neighbors had visited her husband and

told him they would not let her return to the community for the next three months because of fears she was carrying a coronavirus.Saraswati Naskar, 40, another ayah who lives in a slum in Kolkata and works in a government hospital, said she had to pretend to her neighbours she now worked in a restaurant. “I know many ayahs and other low-profile hospital workers who have stopped going to their homes and now sleep somewhere inside the hospital campus,” said Naskar.

Doctors and medical staff from all over the world are leading this battle against Coronavirus from the front. They truly are the real heroes selflessly doing their duty, putting their own lives at risk and saving the world. The best we can do is appreciate their efforts and support them by co-operating and staying at home. They are putting their families, their food, their sleep, everything on low priorities to save people they don’t even know.