New technologies help China fight novel coronavirus epidemic
By Li Zhen, People’s Daily
Overseas Edition
New
technologies have significantly helped China’s nationwide efforts to fight
pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
Thanks
to new technologies, citizens in home quarantine can check dynamic situation of
the epidemic and the distribution density in a heat map at any time, which has
been a great help for reducing travel and anxiety of people in quarantine.
Chinese
Internet giant Tencent’s information stream service platform has rolled out a
function that enables people to search information about communities with cases
of novel coronavirus infection.
Covering
more than 130 cities, including Beijing, and Shenzhen and Guangzhou in south
China’s Guangdong province, the function shows people the number of confirmed
cases of novel coronavirus infection and the location of the
patients on a map.
“This
is a drone equipped with an infrared thermal imaging lens, which helps to
observe visible light and infrared light,” said Yi Jinyu, a community worker who
was taking residents’ body temperatures with a drone in Yiyang new area of
Yichun, east China’s Jiangxi province.
“Within
the effective range of three meters, it can measure body temperature with an
average error of around 5 percent. The error can be reduced to one percent if
the measuring distance is within one meter,” Yi disclosed. The drone helps workers
avoid infection when they measure and register people’s body temperatures from
door to door.
Besides
online information services for citizens in home quarantine, smart products are
of great help to people fighting the epidemic in the front line of the battle.
On
Feb. 6, a driverless white vehicle running on Jilin street, Qingshan district
of Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei province, took an express parcel to
the gate of Wuhan Ninth Hospital after passing several crossings. Then, the
owner of the parcel claimed package by simply clicking on the screen of the
vehicle.
It
was the first express parcel delivered since the epidemic outbreak. The vehicle
was developed by smart delivery robot developed by JD Logistics, the
supply chain arm under Chinese online retailer JD.com.
“The
smart robot can not only deliver the supplies in shortage to us, but also
minimize the possibility of infection by contact. It is such a big help for us,”
said the staff member of the hospital who received the parcel.
With
drone technology becomes increasingly mature, drones have witnessed more and
more extensive application in work of the police.
With wide observation range and broad vision, drones are
helpful for reducing the work intensity and risk of infection in the work of
the police, said Wen Saiwu, deputy director of the public security bureau of
Ruichang, Jiangxi province.
Drones
have also helped improve the efficiency of the police’s efforts to carry out
epidemic prevention and quarantine inspection, Wen added.
More
advanced medical technologies are indispensable to China’s battle
against the epidemic and its race against time.
On
Feb. 5, a new virus detection lab named “Huoyan” (Fire Eye) was officially put
into trial operation in Wuhan. The lab can test as many as 10,000 samples per
day, and get the nucleic acid test results in an average of four to six hours.
Huoyan
has greatly enhanced the capacity of Wuhan and surrounding cities for detection
of the virus since it was put into service.
More
high and new technologies are expected to provide all-round assistance for
fighting the epidemic in the Huoshenshan Hospital and Leishenshan Hospital, two
makeshift hospitals built in Wuhan for treating patients infected by the novel
coronavirus.
China’s
three major telecommunications operators - China Telecom, China Mobile and
China Unicom, have cooperated with multiple manufacturers to complete the
construction of a 5G network covering the whole area of Huoshenshan Hospital
and a teleconsultation system for Huoshenshan Hospital and the Chinese People’s
Liberation Army General Hospital within 36 hours.
China’s
tech giant Lenovo offered over 2,000 sets of computers to Huoshenshan Hospital,
and sent a professional information technology team to build information system
for the hospital.
In
addition, Beijing Orion Star Technology Co., Ltd. donated robots that can
provide medical services to Huoshenshan Hospital. The robots can perform tasks
including delivering laboratory test reports and drugs.
Moreover,
such new-tech products as medical apparatus and instruments, as
well as air conditioners, thermal image chips, ultraviolet lamps,
and dedicated air purifiers for intensive care unit (ICU) wards and operating
rooms, have played important roles in fighting the epidemic in a scientific and
accurate manner.
A man in home quarantine in
Changping village, Jiapu town, Changxing county, Huzhou, east China’s Zhejiang
province, receives face masks and thermometer delivered by a drone on Feb.9,
2020. (Photo by Tan Yunfeng/People’s Daily Online)
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