Tech weapons to fight the coronavirus

We have not yet fully leveraged the greatest technologies of the past decades in our battle with Covid-19.

Sat, Apr 25, 2020 - 5:50 AM

Samples taken from people tested for the novel coronavirus, at a laboratory recently dedicated for the processing of Covid-19 samples at The Lighthouse Lab in Cheshire, northern England, on Wednesday.

PHOTO: AFP

OVER the past few months we experienced a series of Covid-19 outbreaks replicated across countries in almost identical ways: an initial phase with few infections and limited response, followed by a takeoff of the famous epidemic "curve" accompanied with a country-wide lockdown to "flatten the...