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• US drone company Zipline starts delivering medicine in Japan

  They're flying, starting Thursday, across the tiny Goto Islands, off the western coast of Kyushu, in southwestern Japan, delivering to pharmacies and hospitals.

  

• Dr Lal PathLabs launches pilot project to transport blood samples using drones

  The drones are used for transport of blood samples and provide diagnostic access across various challenging geographies.

  

• Drones to deliver vaccines, medicines in Jammu

  "This is going to be a pilot project for the area. The drone is developed and manufactured entirely by our scientists," Union Minister for Science & Technology, Dr Jitendra Singh told mediapersons.

  

• Telangana’s Medicine from the Sky project drones trial to start from Sept 20

  The drone delivery trials of critical healthcare supplies of COVID-19 such as vaccines, medicines, and blood packets starts from 20th September. It will deliver up to 12 km within an expected timeframe of 18 minutes with each drone carrying vaccines in temperature-controlled boxes.

  

• Medicine delivery by drones to be piloted in 16 green zones in Telangana, says Scindia

  ​​Launching 'Medicines from the Sky' project, Scindia said the new Drone Policy brought out by the NDA government recently eased rules regarding drone operations in the country by reducing the number of forms needed to be filled to operate them from 25 to 5 and decreasing the types of fee charged from the operator from 72 to 4.

  

• ICMR gets govt's nod for drone trial for Covid-19 vaccine delivery

  The permission exemption is valid for a period of one year or until further orders, stated the ministry in a release.

  

• Use drones to monitor if people do not wear masks: HC to Yogi govt

  The Allahabad High Court has directed the Uttar Pradesh government to ensure strict monitoring, and compulsorily implement the rule of wearing face masks in the six districts most affected by the coronavirus infection in the state.

  

• Thermal scan: Drones check people for fever in Delhi

  “Infrared thermometers can check temperature of only one person at a time. The pilot project aims to do thermal scanning of a large population. While flying above roads and markets, the drone can catch temperature anomalies in the population below. If the temperature of the skin is above average, then an individual can be selected for additional screening,” the official said.

  

• India’s malaria crisis has a drone solution

  India carries a heavy burden of waterborne diseases such as malaria, dengue and chikungunya. In 2017, the country witnessed a 300 per cent spike in cases of dengue, from 60,000 cases in 2009 to 1,88,401 in 2017, as per the data by National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP) and National Health Profile 2018.

  

• Drones can be very effective in providing healthcare facilities: Arvind Sivaramakrishnan

  Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld spoke to Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, CIO, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise, Chennai, to know more about the importance of drone services in healthcare and the role of artificial intelligence in cardiology.

  

• Zanzibar tests drones spraying rice fields to fight malaria

  The drones will spray a silicone-based liquid on rice paddies, where there are large expanses of stagnant water where malaria-carrying mosquitoes lay their eggs.