Joseph Ernest Acquah, a taxi driver from Ghana, developed an innovative way to help the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. Following the safety measures recommended by the World Health Organization, especially with regards to frequent had washing, he developed an automatic hand washing station for his car.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, special safety measures had to be implemented in order for society to be able to continue to function while preventing the spread of the new coronavirus. In schools, many of which had to close for several weeks due to the pandemic, the biggest concern after re-opening was how to encourage students to maintain social distancing, especially in the case of small children. But on school in China developed an innovative solution to this problem.

Amidst the Covi-19 pandemic, society citizens had to adjust to life during the pandemic. With countries going over the peak of the disease’s spread and slowly lifting lockdown restrictions, life was slowing getting back to normal, but under the paradigm and new rules safety rules to follow.

A group of doctors from the Aureus Institute of Medical Sciences developed a equipment called CoviSafe – a container “box” designed to safely transport patients infected with Covid-19. The necessity was brought up by the difficulties encountered in transporting these patients while keeping the health professional safe and not in risk of infection.

A team from the Institute of Naval Medicine and the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai worked together to design a new form of PPE, to face the country’s shortages of this equipment.

The design has been tested and approved for use in clinical settings by India’s Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences, the official authority in testing and certification of PPE.
The protective equipment is made of an innovative breathable fabric, in order to make doctors more comfortable under the hot and humid weather conditions in India.

Like many other healthcare facilities, Northwell Health Hospital, in New York, was experience the burden of the Covid-19 pandemic, with the rising number of patients in need of hospital care.

Amidst the situation, Dr. Hugh Cassiere, a pulmonologists at Northwell Health, thought that, maybe, breathing machines like CPAPs could be converted into ventilators. He shared the idea with his colleague Stanley John and they started investigating, confirming that the breathing machines’ software could be used to turn them into ventilator.

SUVE is a chatbot created to automatically answer people’s questions about the coronavirus pandemic, in real time.

It was created by the eeBot team, during the “Hack the Crisis” hackathon, organized in March 2020 by Garage48 and Accelerate Estonia. The team is made up of volunteers with expertise in the fields of IT, marketing, assistance to foreigners, etc.
“The idea of a nationwide chatbot had been in people’s minds already before the crisis, but the hackathon gave us a real chance to bring it to life very quickly,” said Michaela Snopkova, leader of the eeBot team.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, healthcare services all over the world were experiencing shortages of Personal Protective Equipment. Jesse Chang, a 3D industry expert, “was very concerned with the shortage and how dire the situation was to have forced hospital workers use loose-fitting bandanas and surgical masks for protection, when N95 masks were required”, and felt he could do something to help alleviate the problem.

A team of doctors, led by Dr Ganapathi, from the Mangala Hospital, developed an alternative to the typical oxygen masks: a bubble helmet designed to aid in the treatment of patients with Covid-19.

The helmets are transparent and airtight, sealed through a collar that wraps around the patient’s neck. Being transparent, they allow the patients to watch television or read a book while wearing them. And patients who have tested the helmets found them more comfortable to wear than traditional masks.

Like many other countries in the World, Kenya was being affected by the coronavirus and worrying about the potential lack of ventilators that might be necessary to treat patients with Covid-19. According to the Dr. Idris Nzao Chikophe, Secretary-General of the Kenya Critical Care Society, the country had only 259 functional ventilators.

Knowing about this problem, a group of 15 medical and engineer students from Kenyatta University, decide to take matters into their own hands and developed their own ventilator prototype.

Room is a company that manufactures Phone Booths for in-office privacy. During the Covid-19 pandemic, with business slowing down, the company decided to put their expertise to use and join in the fight against Covid-19. So, they adapted their design and created a Test Booth, to facilitate testing and protect healthcare workers.

High School students from The Village School are trying to do their part and contribute to find solutions to help in the fight against the new coronavirus.

Knowing about the shortage of protective equipment in healthcare facilities, they have created a sealed box that allows doctors to safely intubate patients with Covid-19. The boxes are made of clear acrylic sheets and have two openings through which doctors can put their hands and have access to the patient. In this way, doctors are protected from the droplets emitted by the patients, which carry the virus.

Nuno Botelho, from Portugal, wanted to find a way to contribute during the Covid-19 pandemic, as he knew that were a lot of people going through hard times. So, he thought that he could take an used box he had in his house and fill it up with food and other essential items. He placed the box in the street near his house, with a sign that read “Solidarity Box – Take what you need, leave what you can”. Soon, some neighbors started taking items from the box, others contributing to fill it up again with more supplies.

Portuguese publishing company “Ideias com História”, launched the CoronaKids website with several resources designed to teach children and young teenagers about the new coronavirus and the Covid-19 pandemic. The website received the support of the Portuguese Directorate-General of Health and all the resources are being developed according to their official guidelines.

A group of volunteers in Portugal launched the ICAM-COVID19 project, to provide scientific information to doctors about the new coronavirus and its associated disease.

The project was initiated by Alexandre Teixeira, a final year medical student at Universidade do Algarve, who was aware that doctors needed a place where they could easily find accurate and updated scientific information about the SARS-CoV-2 virus and Covid-19. So, Alexandre put together a team of volunteers made up of other medical students, doctors, researchers and even companies.

Avi Schiffman, a junior at Mercer Island High School, was concern about the spread od misinformation during the Covid-19 pandemic. So, in January 2020, at the start of the Covid-19 outbreak in China, he started developing a website that gathered updated and accurate information about the coronavirus. His goal was “ to make the site the best place for information about the coronavirus, with multiple methods of getting data,”

Dr. Elizabeth Forrester and Dr. Dawn Richards, faculty members at Baylor School, knew they could use their expertise and resources to help in the testing efforts for Covid-19. Both are PhD research scientists with access to the university level science lab at Baylor School so, they decided to approach the school’s administration and pitch the idea.

“Once we had the protocol worked out and it became obvious that we had a resource that we wanted to make available to the community is when we began talks with the Hamilton County Health Department,” Dr. Forrester said.

Members of a game development university students’ club, called “GameDev Técnico”, from Instituto Superior Técnico, designed a new computer game to raise awareness about the importance of good social distancing practices during the Covid-19 pandemic.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, many countries around the world were experiencing a lack of ventilators necessary to treat patients. Aware of this situation, Marco Mascorro decided to use his engineering expertise and build a simple, low-cost, Pandemic Ventilator. "I am a true believer that technology can solve a lot of the problems we have right now, specifically in this pandemic" he said.

Maria Gouveia has always tried to explain the world to her daughters in ways they could understand. So, during the Covid-19 pandemic, she wrote a story about the new coronavirus for her two daughters, 11 and 2 years old. The book was written especially for her youngest daughter who was having a hard time understanding why they weren't allowed to go outside, to the park or the beach, as they always did.