As per the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, various initiatives have been taken by smart Cities to tackle COVID-19.
The Vadodara district administration has installed a helium balloon in the Tandalja area attached with two cameras and a public address system.
This will enable the administration for an effective surveillance on lockdown violators. Further, the city has been divided into 4 zones, red, orange, yellow and green. All this will help in strategic dealing with the corona virus pandemic.
Model COVID-19 War Room at Bengaluru - COVID-19 data dashboard of Karnataka has been inaugurated by State Minister for Medical Education on 7 April 2020 at Bengaluru Smart City COVID War Room.
People under quarantine, their contacts, medical personnel on ground, hospitals, taluk-wise & City-wise data & beyond., all other COVId-19 related data will be there in the dashboard. This real-time data is being put together with a host of software and applications
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Kalyan Dombivali; KDMC Facebook Page has been created to inform people about COVId-19 and to keep citizens engaged.Daily routine of activities has been designed from 7 a.m to 9 p.m. Various local experts from different fields such as Yoga, Culinary Art, Aerobics, music, poetry, ghazal, kathak and Bharatanatyam, philosophy come live in Face book Page of KDMC during scheduled time slots. This initiative is receiving huge response and appreciation from citizens.
Agra Smart City Ltd started a E-Doctor Seva for common people. It is a tele-video consultation facility. For consultations and appointments with the doctor, citizens have to log in by using this link, https://tinyurl.com/edoctorapp.
Appointments can be taken using the mobile app. App can be downloaded by any Android phone (play store) users by clicking the link below:
(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.needstreet.health.hppatient).
Consultation facility will be available from 10 am to 12.00 pm (Monday to Saturday).
How does E-doctor Seva Works:
- Once appointment is taken through the site/app a particular date and time will be allocated for the consultation.
- The patient can have a tele/video call with the doctor at the scheduled time.
- After consultation, online prescription can also be downloaded by patient from the site/app.
- On request, required medicines will be delivered at home from the Smart Health Centre-Pharmacy.
E-Doctor Seva works under the model of Public Private Partnership (PPP) and the PPP partner is Azael Manufacturing Private Limited.
They are also in the process of opening 10 Smart Health Centers in Agra for providing affordable and holistic healthcare services to local masses. One such centre is already operational and serving the local population.
Smart Health Centers established under Smart City scheme help in spreading awareness about various Do & Don’ts of Corona ,each patient is given a 3-5 min briefing on the advisory regarding Corona for both the general consultation as well as at the dental clinic.
325 patients took consultation in March and 675 patients in February. 1015 sanitizers and 935 masks were distributed at subsidized rates through the pharmacy at smart health center which provided a great relief to the people.
- Agra Administration in association with Agra Smart City & Agra Police is making full use of ICCC Control Room established by Agra Smart City Limited at Nagar Nigam Agra.
- Agra Lock down Monitoring App has been launched. This innovative video surveillance solution will be made use to effectively monitor the various locations in Agra city to manage the crowd and fight COVID 19.
- The latest in this effort is the AI based Analytics, the first of its kind combat COVID 19 in Agra.
- The latest ground-breaking technology adopted by Agra Administration is provided by the existing Surveillance vendor under CSR initiative. An alert is instantly generated to help the authorities to strictly maintain social distancing in Agra. T
- he alerts are configured through an App on the field staff Mobile phones and help the Police Administration on ground. Agra lockdown monitor App will be available to all thana in-charges and any other police personnel as required.
Along with district administration, cooked food bank has been established which collect cooked food packets from various NGOs and it is been distributed to needy, destitute and labourers etc., 5000 food packets has been distributed.
COVID-19 data dashboard developed in Kakinada ICCC. Kakinada, district, state and country level information is being displayed in the ICCC.The details can be accessed at https://covid19.kkdeservices.com:2278.
Chandigarh has installed a comprehensive ‘fight COVID station’ with facilities of thermal screening by taking temperature, pedestal operated hand-wash and soap dispenser, mist spray of sodium hypochlorite solution and hand dryer facility. It has been installed at the Main Mandi sector-25, Chandigarh by Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh and all visitors to Mandi are expected to pass through the station.
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