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Mumbai-based Qure.ai’s AI-powered solution can identify 20 different abnormalities in a chest X-ray, including the Covid-19 infection. The tool reduces the need of a trained technician and processes results in a minute. For a country in need of an affordable and effective mass-screening product, this could be the way forward.
The looming threat of the coronavirus outbreak, which has put serious strain on the public-healthcare system across the world, became real when it entered India. For a populous country like ours, it was a ticking bomb. Hence, making the entire area of Mumbai’s Worli-Koliwada containment zone on March 29, when only four cases were reported, wasn’t an over-reaction. The stretch is dense with a population of close to 40,000. Within the next two
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