RWANDA DEPLOYS ROBOTS TO FIGHT COVID-19

As the cruel novel coronavirus pandemic proceeds to spread across Sub-Sahara Africa, Rwanda has deployed the services of five state-of-the-art humanoid robots to augment its effort to fight the virus.

The robots, which were unveiled at a Public event on Tuesday May 20th, 2020, are designed to quell the exposure of frontline health workers to get infected by the virus in discharging their duties, the Rwandan Health Minister Dr. Daniel Ngamije stated.

According to Officials, the robots could deliver food, medication and screen temperatures of 50 to 150 people per minute. They are also able to screen people to see if they are wearing masks or not. If not, they can caution people the need to wear one.

The robots were developed by Zora Bots, a Belgium company and cost about £2,700, according to Rwandan media. They have been named, Mwiza, Ikizere, Akazuba, Urumuri and Ngabo.

Dr. Ngamije stated that it will take staff at the health ministry about a month to be trained how to operate them. “We need additional robots for other duties like disinfection in Public space, and we are working to get them,’’ he added.

The news comes as coronavirus continues to cause havoc through Africa. So far, the continent has recorded over 88,000 cases according to the African Centre for Disease Control in Addis Ababa.

Further, experts at the World Health Organization (WHO) concludes that because of low testing, the real number of coronavirus cases in Africa is almost certainly far higher. Rwanda, which officials like to tout as the “Singapore of Africa” has officially recorded 308 cases of coronavirus and no deaths.

Credit: WHO || The Telegraph.co.uk