The Use Of Tech To Combat Covid19 And Save Businesses

The use of tech to combat Covid 19 and save businesses. The year is 2021 and the Coronavirus is still an ever growing pandemic. Needless to say, countries have been going out of their way to try and curb the situation while at the same time keeping the economy afloat.

A growing number of businesses and tech companies have also joined the bandwagon to find ways of co-existing with the virus and reduce the effects it has had on world economies. This comes as a life saving effort seeing as the world of so many moving parts had to quickly, almost forcibly adapt to total movement restrictions. Businesses have had to do more than just think out the box to stay relevant or else suffer detrimental consequences and unprecedented closure.

A great list of IT experts around the world are working round the clock to support a workforce that’s suddenly fully remote, in a bid to to alleviate the COVID-19 crisis in various ways. This includes the development of first class products targeted at fighting the virus, tracking and predicting its spread while at the same time protecting livelihoods.

People have developed a work from home culture, using different social media platforms to stay in contact. To people’s amusement and advantage, a lot more work can actually be done from the comfort of your desktop at home than the usual hustle and tussle at workspaces. Even the education sector has to familiarize itself with modern day virtual learning to minimize physical contact thereby reducing the spread of the virus.

Some big companies in the mining and construction industry have developed software that allow them to operate heavy machinery from the touch of a screen at home. For example, China is using Big Data & AI to fight the Corona virus as well as carrying out risk assessment and forecasting through artificial intelligence.