How are South Korea, Singapore, and Delhi using IoT to Track COVID-19?

The global health emergency has been affirmed by WHO due to the emerging COVID-19 pandemic. The death toll and increasing cases are aerial attacks in the USA, Spain, Italy, France, and Germany, and many other nations have established lockdowns and shut down borders. 

 

In the course of this blog, we will learn how technology can corporate in restraining the expansion of the toxic syndromes that have the potential to kill people. Let us identify how!!!!

 

Introduction

 

To curb the spread of infectious disease, there must be the ability of the government’s health response system to scale the solution in particular with the extension of the outbreak. 

 

All proactive and enormous human resources are required in capturing the origin of an epidemic, quarantining conceivably infected patients, massive testing, treating ill patients actively and forbidding cross-infection between the medical community and patients.  

 

The worldwide battle sustains against COVID-19, amid this, nations are integrating models from other countries that might facilitate in smashing the curve of coronavirus infections. One such example is the combative testing done in South Korea.

 

During these drastic conditions, South Korea has appeared as a light of hope and a symbol to imitate. Behind its success, a well-organized and very expansive testing program followed with considerable attempts to isolate infected people and detect and quarantine their reach. 

 

IoT’s Potential in Operating Infectious Disease

 

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an automated and adaptable solution system that has shown tremendous growth in various industries such as wearable electronics, automatic manufacturing, service management, health monitoring, etc.

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IoT is already in demand to operate a few aspects of coronavirus disease, such as drones are deployed as public scrutiny to ensure the quarantine and wearing of masks. Following are the key measurements using IoT for an outbreak;

 

1. To examine and scrutinize an epidemic   

 

The government authorities can collect numerous and diversified datasets by patient mobile phone, credit card, and other relevant means to trace the patient's recent activities. This information can be used to examine the people who came in contact with infected patients, might also be infected, and IoT can help in it to trace the origin of the disease.  

 

2. To clinch the conformity of quarantine

 

IoT can be implemented to confirm patients’ obedience once an infected person is advised to follow quarantine. Public health staff can monitor who remained quarantined and who rupture quarantine. IoT can also aid in tracking down those who may be in danger due to rupture.

 

Although it is quite stiff to remain quarantined, I suggest you do some productive activities to keep yourself hustling.  

 

3. To monitor patient care

 

The patients, who are at high-risk enough to authorize quarantine but not genuine adequate to permit in-hospital care, can be scalably monitored with the help of IoT. 

 

For example, with IoT, patients can check their temperature and feed the data to the cloud with their mobile devices for more analysis. Healthcare staff can collect more information in less time and it also decreases the possibilities of cross-infection with the patients.  

 

 

South Korea has defeated COVID-19, How? 

 

South Korea has successfully deployed its testing model to battle with coronavirus, where testing is definitely hard with a rapid-spreading disease like this. The biggest attempt of defeating corona in Korea has been massive, indiscriminate testing, meticulous contact detecting, and the quarantine of the person, the carrier, has come in reach too. (From source)

 

The country has 650 testing centers across the nation that are enough for a community of Korea’s volume. The pandemic has been undertaken at the very initial stage through testing centers that were a root in the recovery in its entirety. (took reference source)  

 

South Korea has shown that diagnostic efficiency at large scales is mainly to control the corona epidemic. Even more, contact tracing became the prominent factor in the epidemic restraints as the isolation case.

 

Tracing, testing, and quarantining can put down the outbreak in a specific period of time. The laboratory testing is crucial to regulate an arising infectious syndrome. In time, the shadow of the fugitive epidemic alerted the people and gouged the economy. More on way, this is how the runaway epidemic has impacted the financial market.

 

The local government authorities have collected mobile phones, credit cards, and other relevant data of those who tested positive to fix up their recent location. This information is shared on social media apps that enable them to identify others whether they have passed over places with an infected person. 

 

 

Singapore is Blowing Coronavirus

 

Singapore is “leaving no stone unturned, following SARS in 2003, Singapore has established isolation hospitals, and created many negative pressure rooms for epidemics. When the world became aware of coronavirus in China, Singapore initiated to get prepared and ready by the time when WHO declared a public health emergency. 

 

Singapore has strong syndrome inspection and rapid contact tracing. Amidst the coronavirus outbreak, quarantine and isolation rules are strictly enforced. (Source)

 

The key essences are quick to action, extensive testing, and relentless tracking in controlling the outbreak at the initial stage. The following are 5 things to learn from Singapore to manage the coronavirus crisis;

 

1. Execute instantly

 

Singapore authorities have acted very quickly when the virus emerged in early January, the key success is the determination to respond aggressively from the beginning. Even though the city-state proactively implemented travel restrictions on passengers.

 

2. Strict detection and absolute quarantine

 

Anyone who is found infected is kept in hospital and isolated from friends and family. People who have no symptoms but remained in contact with infected persons are strictly quarantined at home.  An SMS is issued many times a day and needs a check-in that confirms a location. Penalties are rigorous.  

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3. Social distancing and prohibited mass gatherings

 

The authorities quickly put social distancing into practice, schools are closed, many enterprises have either shuttered or employees are asked to work from home. Movie theaters, churches, and basketball courts are closed. Mass gatherings are canceled. 

 

4. Active communication

 

To deliver accurate information about social distancing, and assure people remain attentive but don’t get panic. All of the government should be involved in making health officials face the consequences. A cartoon-based public campaign for a clear awareness. 

 

5. Well-systematized authority

 

Precisely define protocols and convey the information correctly, so it can be expressed by any member of the team. (In reference with)

 

 

Delhi to Attempt 5T- Plan Against Coronavirus

 

Recently, Delhi’s Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has disclosed a 5T program to halt the spreading of the coronavirus. The government has scaled all means to heal all active cases at the same time, if necessary.

 

The 5T blueprint incorporates Testing, Tracing, Treatment, Teamwork, and Tracking. 

 

1. Testing

 

Emphasizing the necessity of testing, this stage includes aggressive testing to find, cure, trace, quarantine, and seal the coronavirus-infected patients through the massive testing in the capital. According to the 1st step in the plan, The government has almost 50,000 testing kits and more to come and will test 100k people randomly. Random Testing will be conducted on major hotspots as identified. (From Source)

 

South Korea and Germany have managed the command in mass testing that aid in controlling the spread of novel infections and keeping the death rate small.

 

2. Tracing

 

Later testing, the plan turns towards tracing. It involves recognizing and quarantining people who have come in reach with the infected patient. With the help of local police, it will be checked whether the infected person is following the advice of self-quarantined or not. Police also will trace their movement.

 

3. Treatment

 

According to the 3rd stage of the plan, almost 2950 beds are preserved for corona patients in multiple hospitals including private hospitals. Along with it, 12,000 hotel rooms are taken over for treatment in which serious and the aged patients will be kept in hospitals and while moderate symptoms patients will be put up in hotels and Dharamshala.  

 

4. Teamwork

 

It includes teamwork and cumulative efforts to fight the virus, doctors and other medical staff are the essences of the team while their safety will also be accounted for. Coronavirus can only be broken down by teamwork, thus all state authorities are asked to work and cooperate with each other. 

 

5. Tracking and Monitoring

 

This stage signifies to ensure all the measures are at a location for 24x7 and all the systems are operating very well. Delhi government will actively monitor development and actions to end the spreading of the COVID-19 epidemic. (Information provided as in the news)

 

 

Conclusion

 

So far, you have seen how the world has been struggling with the novel emerging disease COVID-19 that is spreading rapidly worldwide. Besides this, underlying technologies together with IoT elements can allow the healthcare system to tackle the COVID-19 outbreak. 

 

However, the system needs advanced infrastructure to link the elements of data acquisition, processing and storing to track disease, secure quarantine, and in-depth care of an infected person.

 

Countries are making extensive efforts to control it where South Korea’s defeating model is a one-known example. Delhi and Singapore are in line with South Korea and many other countries are also following the same agenda. For more blogs on analytics, do read Analytics Steps and connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.