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Africa: South Africa Develops App to Prevent Spread of COVID-19
DW, 15 May 2020
Scientists at the University of Cape Town have developed a coronavirus tracing app for emerging markets - designed to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. However, implementing the… Read more »
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Uganda: Ugandans Develop App for COVID-19 Contact Tracing
Monitor, 23 May 2020
As Covid-19 pandemic wreaks havoc worldwide, many scientists are looking for possible solutions to flatten the curve and slow the spread of the infection. Read more »
Contact Tracing Apps from South Africa, Uganda to Curb COVID-19
Covi-ID, an app designed to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, has been developed in South Africa by Co-Pierre Georg, an associate professor at the University of Cape Town School of Economics. This comes as Defining Technologies, a Ugandan firm, developed a contact tracing app that was donated to the Ministry of Health National Taskforce to help limit the spread of the virus.
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The ability to innovate and quickly adapt will be major issues framing the world's developmental trajectory after the Covid-19 outbreak, writes Lovemore Chikova for The Herald. ... Read more »
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Stephen Wamukota, a pupil at Mukwa Primary School has made the machine which does not require one to touch the liquid soap or the water bucket, which are placed side by side. He ... Read more »
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Innovation, which has long characterized Africa, has become a central feature of the response to the SARS-CoV-2 (new coronavirus) crisis across the continent. Fashion designers in ... Read more »
