How Different States In India Are Using AI-Powered Tools To Combat Covid-19

India may have responded quickly to the problems posed by Covid-19 with the nation-wide lockdown, but enormous challenges to mitigate its spread remains. As states chalk out stringent surveillance and quarantine measures, the demand for digital services to complement these aggressive efforts have emerged in recent weeks. Be it to flag social distancing violations, monitor the infection, deliver N95 masks and other resources faster, conduct thermal screening of civilians and contact tracing of patients - a host of startups and tech companies have launched various tools and solutions to ease the pressure on state governments. While various initiatives by ministries within the central government such as Corona Helpdesk and Aarogya Setu have helped assuage some of the ongoing challenges, many states have turned to additional technological interventions to tackle some of these. A case in point being L&T leveraging its AI capabilities to help 20 Indian cities monitor crowds and