Anand Mahindra will give the total of his salary to create a fund to help small businesses and self-employed that are worst stroke by COVID. His company will also start producing ventilators to help India fight the crisis.
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Resysten uses its innovative anti-bacterial technology, WhiteTitan, to protect various surfaces from viruses and bacteria, including COVID. The product is sprayed on and bonds at nano level to the surface, and then, when in contact with light, becomes active and remains so for a year, on any surface.
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Amazon Care has partnered with the Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network (SCAN) to study how the coronavirus spreads among different demographic groups. The e-commerce giant intends to deliver diagnostic tests to individuals who either feel sick or are asymptomatic. These tests are later picked up and if COVID is detected the patient will receive a call.
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The WHO Viber chatbot is giving users notifications with the latest news and information regarding the virus. The chatbot allows people to verify true and false assumptions regarding the virus through an interactive quiz that is available in multiple languages.
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Blind Pig sales representative Michael Heldebrandt is wearing a dinosaur costume to stay safe while he delivers alcohol. After realising that people enjoy seeing him wear it he has gained tremendous popularity.
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The website provides free services for community members who are at high risk of catching COVID. Some of these services include grocery delivery, prescription pick-up, and phone calls for emotional support. Individuals can sign-up online to volunteer to support this cause.
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Indian police officials started several initiatives to increase public awareness for COVID, such as wearing COVID-shaped helmets to persuade people to comply with the nationwide lockdown or hand-washing dances to teach people proper hand hygiene.
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Spotify partnered with a variety of organisations to launch the ‘Spotify COVID-19 Music Relief’ project that is aimed at providing financial relief to musicians globally by matching them with verified organisations that offer financial support.
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The startup is now offering a non-profit version of its communication and trading platform, which reduces waste by connecting food growers directly with retailers. FruPro says this could potentially help feed half a million people in just 2 days with food previously destined for the landfill.
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To support the University of Maryland Medical System’s (UMMS) health care providers and staff, Under Armour has begun manufacturing face masks, face shields and specially equipped fanny packs, and is also exploring fabricating hospital gowns.
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Shop Safe enables people to inform others about the crowds in their local stores during COVID. How busy is it? And what is still available? In this way, people will know better where to go and when.
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In Rwanda and Ghana, Zipline has already been in use for years to deliver vital medical supplies via their drone network to remote regions. Now they are planning to offer the same system in the US, delivering medical supplies with drones to help during the COVID crisis.
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The largest bedding company in the US donated 10,000 mattresses to New York City hospitals and temporary medical facilities fighting COVID, and is calling on its peers to do the same.
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As more people are relying on telemedicine due to social distancing measures, GoodRx offers now a way to compare services. On the platform, users can select a medical condition, including COVID, the site then provides a list of telehealth services that can treat that condition, along with the estimated price and pharmacy information.
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Buenos Aires’ citizens can now text a WhatsApp number and, after a series of questions, the chatbot evaluates whether they represent a suspicious case of COVID. The City increased its response capacity, with 50 messages being answered per second.
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The artist launches #PaintWithPaak, a drawing of himself for kids to color, posted to his Instagram every Friday. Other artists have started webcast series, released new songs or started teaching online lessons to keep a connection with fans.
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Territorial Empathy designed this door hanger to enable people to inform vulnerable neighbours they are here to help. The nonprofit has also created a map that shows all free food locations for New York City families in Spanish to supplement the Government version in English.
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The Pan-European Privacy Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT) brings together 130 researchers from eight countries to develop applications that can support contact tracing efforts within countries and across borders while complying with the region’s tough privacy laws.
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo mentioned on Twitter that JetBlue was donating free flights for incoming medical volunteers heading to New York State which the airline then retweeted.
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DS Smith has been working closely with food retailers across Europe to design, develop and produce new boxes designed to supply emergency provision boxes to the most vulnerable.
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