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Digital Planet: Spain’s many COVID-19 apps

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Spain’s many contact tracing apps

12/05/2020 GMT

Spain’s many COVID-19 apps

BBC World Service - Digital Planet, Spain’s many COVID-19 apps

Spain currently has nine different COVID-19 tracing apps. Which type of app is preferable?

Spain’s many COVID-19 tracing apps raise questions of privacy; AI helps treatment of ovarian cancer; robotic hands operate manual ventilators

In Spain, there are a total of nine COVID-19 tracing apps, but is this too many? Which type is preferable and does there need to be a more coordinated technology across Europe to track COVID-19? Digital Planet reporter Jennifer O’Mahony ask these questions and more on the programme.

Ovarian cancer and AI
In the final of our reports from the Cambridge Science Festival, Gareth and Bill meet Dr. Mireia Crispin Ortuzar. She researches AI that analyses radiographic images to help choose and track treatment for ovarian cancer. In the long-term, this type of technology could lead to more personalised medicine in response to cancer and, perhaps, in other fields of medicine as well.

Robotic Ventilators
At MIT, a team of scientists and engineers have developed a low-cost, open-source robotic hand that can operate manual ventilators. It could help fill the shortage of mechanical ventilators for Covid-19 patients across the globe, particularly in developing countries. Professor Daniela Rus tells Gareth how this new tech works. 


The programme is presented by Gareth Mitchell with expert commentary from Bill Thompson.

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(Image: Covid-19 tracing. Credit: iStock / Getty Images Plus)                                         


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