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Back in early 2020, TrendWatching launched ‘Covid Innovations’ to inspire entrepreneurs and marketers to serve their customers better in dire covid times.

With Covid thankfully no longer impacting daily life, we’re fully focused again on all innovations that make the world a little bit better - check out Daily, our free publication to stay on top of the latest trends, insights and innovations.

 
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1,000+ covid-related innovations from around the world, brought to you by the team behind TrendWatching.

 
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American Hospitality industry launches "Buy One, Give One" program designed to generate immediate revenue for hotels
American Hospitality industry launches "Buy One, Give One" program designed to generate immediate revenue for hotels

The aim of this initiative is to incentivise consumers to purchase future travel now with special offers ranging from discounted stays to gift cards to loyalty points for redemption prior to travel.

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TravelAngela HerdinMay 6, 2020
Indian non-profit initiative #WorkForDoctors helps doctors and hospitals with supply of protective gears
Indian non-profit initiative #WorkForDoctors helps doctors and hospitals with supply of protective gears

#WorkForDoctors is designed to help doctors and hospitals procure essential supplies such as N95 masks and PPE kits. Any hospital in need can directly contact the website that will then arrange delivery from its warehouse.

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Non-Profit, Health & FitnessFiona RaguenezMay 5, 2020 #WorkForDoctors
COVID Canvas by LikeWise in Brasil offers free brand strategy resource to help businesses reinvent themselves
COVID Canvas by LikeWise in Brasil offers free brand strategy resource to help businesses reinvent themselves

LikeWise goal is to bring a new look to businesses from the perspective of your brand and how it related to customers. The free COVID Canvas gives this guidance to Brasilian businesses eager to transform themselves.

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ConsultingFiona RaguenezMay 5, 2020LikeWise
Colombian app MercaLocal that helps small, local food sellers market their products during COVID
Colombian app MercaLocal that helps small, local food sellers market their products during COVID

The app, launched by two Colombian influencers El Gatales and El Camus, aims at helping Colombian day-to-day vendors affected by COVID market and sell their products to local customers.

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Retail, Information TechnologyAngela HerdinMay 5, 2020
Singaporean government distributes reusable cloth masks to its citizens
Singaporean government distributes reusable cloth masks to its citizens

Residents will be able to collect these masks at community centres and residents’ committee centres, or could get them from vending machines.

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GovernmentFiona RaguenezMay 5, 2020Singapore Government
Netherlands train company NS conducts test with specially adapted trains to make social distancing easier
Netherlands train company NS conducts test with specially adapted trains to make social distancing easier

One of the initiatives they will carry out is about covering the seats with foil screens, so the train is covered with stickers and prohibition signs to ensure a social distance of one and a half meters.

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TransportationAngela HerdinMay 5, 2020
Swedish couple opens 'Bord för En', a COVID-safe outdoor restaurant for 1 person only
Swedish couple opens 'Bord för En', a COVID-safe outdoor restaurant for 1 person only

The open-air 'COVID-19-safe restaurant' includes a table and a single chair in a meadow. The restaurant is scheduled to open on May 10 in Varmland, Sweden and it will accommodate one customer per day.

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Food & BeverageSiena KinsaleMay 5, 2020Bord för EnBord för En
German Quarano app offers digital documentation of COVID infection cases and contact persons for health authorities and citizens
German Quarano app offers digital documentation of COVID infection cases and contact persons for health authorities and citizens

Quarano offers health authorities an open source web application for process automation. The documentation of the progress of infected persons and their contact persons in quarantine is mapped and can be quickly integrated into the existing processes of health authorities.

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Information Technology, Health & FitnessFiona RaguenezMay 5, 2020Quarano
Lumi 19 from Argentina is a mobile UV-light reducing the rate of in-hospital infections caused by viruses
Lumi 19 from Argentina is a mobile UV-light reducing the rate of in-hospital infections caused by viruses

Lumi’s mobile air and surface disinfection lamps can be used in waiting rooms, doctors' offices, corridors, operating theatres, laboratories, biological waste rooms and intensive care units, among others.

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Health & FitnessAngela HerdinMay 5, 2020
Brasilian 'Futuro Meu' initiative enables people to send a letter to their future-selves about their current feelings
Brasilian 'Futuro Meu' initiative enables people to send a letter to their future-selves about their current feelings

Through a simple form, people can compose a letter to express both what they are feeling now and what they think they will be experiencing in one year. In 2021, they will then receive the letter via e-mail and be able to analyse what actually happened.

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Media & EntertainmentFiona RaguenezMay 5, 2020 Futuro Meu
Japanese resort 'Arima Sanso Gosho Bessho' provides a virtual reality bathing experience
Japanese resort 'Arima Sanso Gosho Bessho' provides a virtual reality bathing experience

To compensate for people not being able to go to the Arima Onsen resort, the company has designed a virtual reality experience that recreates what it is like to relax in one of the country’s many hot springs.

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TravelSiena KinsaleMay 5, 2020Arima Sanso Gosho Bessho Arima Sanso Gosho Bessho
Pixar YouTube channel launches 'Cooking With Pixar', a collection of recipes inspired by the studio's films
Pixar YouTube channel launches 'Cooking With Pixar', a collection of recipes inspired by the studio's films

The short videos also include some fun animations, with Pixar characters popping in to help demonstrate the recipes. The most recent entry is a birthday cake recipe inspired by Pixar's latest film, Onward, with elf brothers Ian and Barley providing some magical assistance.

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Media & Entertainment, Food & BeverageAngela HerdinMay 5, 2020
US based Sweet Farm launches virtual goat-2-meetings joining your meetings with a goat and a virtual farm tour
US based Sweet Farm launches virtual goat-2-meetings joining your meetings with a goat and a virtual farm tour

The farm now offers Goat-2-Meeting with a quick intro of the farm then an introduction to the animals on a virtual tour. People can ask questions or just hang out or invite the animal ambassadors to their conference calls.

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Media & EntertainmentAngela HerdinMay 5, 2020
PornHub launches 'Cleanest Porn Ever' campaign to help fight COVID
PornHub launches 'Cleanest Porn Ever' campaign to help fight COVID

The campaign starts out with instructional, hygiene tips by some of PornHub's top models like Danika Mori, June Liu, and the Brand Ambassador Asa Akira. The advice includes for example how to properly wash your hands and how far apart six feet really is before moving to sexual content.

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Media & EntertainmentAngela HerdinMay 5, 2020
LEO A DALY showcases Hotel2Hospital design concept to temporarily turn hotels into hospitals
LEO A DALY showcases Hotel2Hospital design concept to temporarily turn hotels into hospitals

The planning and architecture company and its designers invented the Hotel2Hospital concept that would relieve hospital bed shortages and help hoteliers weather an economic storm by converting a hotel into a hospital on a short-term basis.

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Travel, Health & FitnessAngela HerdinMay 5, 2020
Several Southern Poland municipalities install mask and hand sanitiser vending machines
Several Southern Poland municipalities install mask and hand sanitiser vending machines

The 'Maseczkomat ' appeared in the communities of Metropolis over the last week. By using the vending machine, locals get a cashless opportunity to purchase protective masks, gloves and hand sanitiser.

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Health & Fitness, Retail, GovernmentAngela HerdinMay 5, 2020
Dutch initiative 'Support Your Locals' helps local food producers and promotes short, local supply chains
Dutch initiative 'Support Your Locals' helps local food producers and promotes short, local supply chains

Support Your Locals aims at supporting the local producers building short and hyper-local supply chains, ultimately supporting the Dutch economy. In recent weeks, many initiatives have emerged under the banner of #supportyourlocalsNL and more are added every day.

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Non-Profit, Retail, Food & BeverageFiona RaguenezMay 5, 2020Support Your Locals
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Want us to keep you informed about new COVID-related innovations? Then simply subscribe to our newsletter to receive a weekly dose of highly curated, meaningful COVID innovations.

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Thomas KlaffkeMay 4, 2020
Indian software company Zoho launches several apps to help study and work during COVID
Indian software company Zoho launches several apps to help study and work during COVID

The study app enables teachers to support live sessions, share assignments and test students in schools and colleges. Currently, the online classes are structured as such that students can see the teacher but the teacher cannot see the students.

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EducationFiona RaguenezMay 4, 2020Zoho
New-York designer Joe Doucet creates fashion face shields
New-York designer Joe Doucet creates fashion face shields

The new masks have a curved, see-through guard that fronts a dark sunglass lense. The face shield would be put on like a pair of glasses, to look like a fashion accessory and should be less uncomfortable and awkward than traditional protective equipments.

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Apparel & FashionThomas KlaffkeMay 4, 2020 Joe Doucet
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