{"id":449474,"date":"2021-11-11T11:30:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T06:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=449474"},"modified":"2021-11-11T13:08:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T07:38:03","slug":"soon-covid-vaccines-may-be-delivered-by-drones-ask-telangana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/soon-covid-vaccines-may-be-delivered-by-drones-ask-telangana\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon, Covid vaccines may be delivered by drones. Ask Telangana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds like a scenario from a sci-fi movie. An unmanned drone being loaded up with Covid-19 vaccines and flying from a district hospital in Telangana to a remote primary health centre. On the return journey the drone\u2019s temperature-controlled boxes are loaded with blood and other samples for analysis at the district hospital. <\/p>\n<p>Such scenes are about to become commonplace in the not-too-distant future in Telangana where trial-flights with eight drone companies have just ended. Other states in northeast India too are conducting similar trials in difficult-to-reach hilly areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds like a scenario from a sci-fi movie. An unmanned drone being loaded up with Covid-19 vaccines and flying from a district hospital in Telangana to a remote primary health centre. On the return journey the drone\u2019s temperature-controlled boxes are loaded with blood and other samples for analysis at the district hospital. Such scenes are about to become commonplace in the not-too-distant future in Telangana where trial-flights with eight drone companies have just ended. Other states in northeast India too are conducting similar trials in difficult-to-reach hilly areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,130,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}