Ghana turns to contactless drone delivery to fly Covid-19 blood samples from rural areas to cities for testing
A volunteer distributes cooked food and water to the underprivileged and homeless, as Ghana enforces a partial lockdown in Accra and Kumasi in efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease , in Accra, Ghana. April 4, 2020.
Ghana has 834 confirmed infections and nine people have died from Covid-19, the disease the virus causes. "Using contactless drone delivery to transport Covid-19 test samples will allow the government to respond to the pandemic and help save lives more quickly," Zipline Chief Executive Keller Rinaudo said in a release.Zipline, which already operates fleets of drones in Ghana and Rwanda to deliver blood, vaccines and other essential medical equipment to rural areas, is working with the Ministry of Health to enable the coronavirus sample flights.
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