Drones have now bestowed with a new identity and a new target - not that of what it had on the war fields where it used to drop off the missiles against the assigned and known target, but a different one where the target is an invisible enemy that poses a huge threat to the human lives. It's undeniable that drones had attained a huge transformation of coming close to the people. 

One of the most spelled mechanisms on the war-fields has been renamed based on the services it was assigned. Now it has been assigned as the on-air taskforce to fight Coronavirus and Chennai has been one of the cities in India that extensively deployed the battalion of drones to combat the virus. How it has been helping the state of Tamil Nadu to flatten the curve?

Deployment of Drones has been one of the preventive measures rolled out by the Greater Chennai Corporation in its fight against Coronavirus. While the corporation officials and sanitary workers have been on the ground to spray the disinfectants through machines, drones have been taking the skies to cover up more areas and the narrow streets to spill the disinfectant. 

The drones are largely used in the containment zones that are marked as the hotspots for the virus in the city to spray the disinfectant through which the deployment of the sanitary workers would be minimized in such regions to ensure the safety of the workers and the people residing in the containment zones. According to the reports, the drones are assigned with routine exercise. They would spray a chemical mist from thirty feet above the road then it would concentrate on spraying the mist above the roofs of buildings and the exercise would go on.

In the last three weeks, the five drones deployed by the corporation has covered an area of four crore square meters where it sprayed the mist of Sodium Hypochlorite and after looking at the effectiveness, the Tamil Nadu government has ordered Anna University to provide 25 additional drones with the view of expanding the coverage in other cities and towns in the state. 

These drones -UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle), which fly on petrol, are efficient in carrying 16 liters of disinfectant and it can also operate for more hours. Following which, the Tamil Nadu Health department to reach out to the research center in Anna University to re-design to transport the COVID-19 test samples. The health department considers that carrying the samples on air would be safer than on roads and it also can dispatch the samples to the nearest center faster. As of Tuesday evening, the state reported 1,596 positive cases of which 943 are active patients, 635 have been discharged while 18 had died of Coronavirus.