Coronavirus

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The antibacterial and antiviral card consists of a special layered metal coating that prevents pathogens from living on its surface.

The continuous remote monitor can help prevent complications driven by experimental COVID-19 treatments such as hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine, according to the agency.

The coronavirus pandemic has driven some UK GPs to digitise patient consultations at speed – achieving transformation in weeks with the help of online triage tools.

Also Chinese startup develops smartglasses that can detect temperature. 

As 14 European health innovation projects receive more than €6 million in funding from EIT Health, CEO Jan-Philipp Beck says the COVID-19 pandemic will accelerate the speed of change enabled by digital healthcare and telemedicine – and not before time.

The French company analysed aggregated data from its scales, smartwatches and sleep monitoring devices.    

Also: Washington Post survey says users reluctant to use Google and Apple's tracing app; Chronolife lands CE mark. 

The new tool will be released for limited distribution and will provide multimodal neurobehavioral interventions. 

Covid med ed aims to train healthcare volunteers in skills to cope with the pandemic.