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This drone is delivering medicines, collecting blood samples and spraying sanitizers in Telangana - by @SanchDash

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Everyone saw the viral video of the boy asking out a girl in the times of #Coronavirus – using a drone! In San Francisco, a video of a drone being used to deliver toilet paper too, went viral.

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Closer home, in the times of social distancing, Hyderabad-based startup @Marutdrones1 came up with an innovative way for contactless delivery of medicines, collection of blood samples for testing; along with spraying sanitizers!

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#CoronavirusOutbreak | @Marutdrones1 has successfully demonstrated to the government of Telangana and the Ministry of Civil Aviation, as to how it can do all of the above without any human contact!

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-Drones can be particularly used for disinfectant spraying, monitoring the public for crowd control and medicine delivery.

- Can make the fight against COVID19 effective, efficient, fast, safe and less labour intensive,

Prem Kumar Vislawath, co-founder of Marut Drones.

In Telangana’s Karimnagar, where 11 people (10 Indonesians and one local) tested positive, the startup partnered with the municipal corporation to spray sanitizers.

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“Disinfectants were sprayed at the district collectorate, municipal corporations, district hospital, bus stations, auto stands, Markets, Police Commissionerate and farmers’ markets. The work was completed at a rapid pace,” said Vislawath.

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Not just that, drones were also used by the Karimnagar police to monitor curfew and ensure that nobody was loitering on the streets.

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.@Marutdrones1 has now also applied for a grant for Covid-19 innovations. While drone delivery is currently not allowed in India, the startup is hoping that in view of the trying times, these rules will be relaxed soon.

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The startup claims to have built India’s first drone to eradicate mosquitoes, larvae and water hyacinth on lakes; as well as autonomous drones that spray on agricultural fields.

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They also use an AI platform to identify mosquito-borne diseases and the areas where they breed. For the same, they have already partnered with the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation.

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