UPDATED - Coronavirus: Spanish startups offer solutions from contact-tracing app to free online content

Spain

10 min read

Mar 24, 2020

By Gareth Gardiner Jones, Emanuela Ferraro

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Covid-19 symptoms checker and contact-tracing apps, virtual classrooms and 3D video-conferencing platforms are among the array of solutions for homebound adults and kids

Spain has become one of the worst hit countries in the current coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, with nearly 40,000 confirmed cases of infection and almost 2,700 deaths as of Tuesday March 24 afternoon, local time. Madrid will likely soon become the world's most affected subnational region, surpassing Wuhan and Lombardia, predicts the Financial Times. The capital currently has more than 12,000 infections, with over 1,200 dead.
The government on Sunday extended the nationwide “state of alarm” to April 11, so the country remains under lockdown and people housebound in order to curb the exponen...

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