The company which is known for transporting medical supplies via drones have started operating in Ghana on 18th April,2020. The company now transports suspected covid-19 samples via drone to Ghana’s various research and testing centers for them to be tested and reported on.
Zipline drones now fly test samples collected from patients in more than 1,000 health facilities located in difficult-to-reach rural areas of Ghana to Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research laboratories in Accra, the nation’s capital, and Kumasi Center for Collaborative Research (KCCR) in Kumasi, the country’s second-largest city.
Over the course of four separate flights, each more than 70 miles/116km’s round tip, Zipline delivered the 51 samples to the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research in Accra for testing and analysis.
This marks the first time in history that autonomous drones have been used to make regular long-range deliveries into densely populated urban areas.
