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Telehealth for COVID 19: When Technology Come to Rescue

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Countries all over the world are adopting measures of social distancing. People are encouraged not to visit hospitals especially when countries are under the lockdown mode. So, what would the regular individual do in order to ensure that they are not bearing the symptoms of the dreaded Coronavirus? The answer to this is healthcare technology in the form of telehealth applications . Telehealth by far has emerged as one of the strongest nominations for representing health at your doorstep concept. Its strength in ensuring people do a self-check at home rather than visiting health care centers and emergency wards has been forthcoming in these tough moments. These telehealth applications render your mobile phone as a powerful device as you can literally get a detailed health checkup done thanks to the technology. More about Telehealth The concept is very simple to understand. It is a piece of digital-age information application that encompasses all the aspects of

Contact Tracing App by Singapore for Covid Patient Detection and Monitoring

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COVID-19 and its infection were first discovered in Wuhan which is quite infamous for its wet market. But with time, the virus spread like wildfire which has engulfed many nations bringing disastrous losses(economic and human) losses. But there are some nations which have proactively sought measures to tackle the situation and bring normalcy as early as it can. One among such nations is Singapore that has taken the stance of Social distancing really very seriously given the grave circumstances. Apart from stricter norms and regulations, the government in association with IT supremos has created a mobile application called Trace Together to identify contact tracing that has taken place. As of now, the situation in Singapore is controlled with 879 positive cases and only 3 deaths registered. A great percentage of people have also recovered. The Singapore government has successfully been able to emulate the benchmarked standards as it has the healthiest health systems, ha