Terra Drone group company Antwork has transported medical samples and quarantine materials between Xinchang County People’s Hospital, Xinchang County disease control center and Dashiju branch of Xinchang County People’s Hospital
Zhejiang, China — At 9:00 am on February 6, 2020, a medical delivery drone flew from the People’s Hospital of Xinchang County to the disease control center of Xinchang County, marking the launch of the first “urban air transportation channel” to help to fight the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), a global health emergency. Xinchang County is located in Zhejiang province — one of the most severely-hit provinces by the virus, with 1,006 patients already confirmed to be affected by 2019-nCoV as of Feb 6, 2020.
At present, the county is in a tense period of national epidemic prevention and control. In order to respond to the needs of epidemic prevention and control, Terra Drone group company Antwork is actively contacting local hospitals to support epidemic prevention with practical actions, fully cooperating with local governments and medical aid units to escort the timely and rapid delivery of medical samples and protection materials through the deployment of its drone transportation network.
During the epidemic prevention and control period, Antwork took the initiative to take drone RA3 and tr7s, as well as unmanned station RH1, as the technical solution to transport medical samples and quarantine materials between Xinchang County People’s Hospital, Xinchang County disease control center and Dashiju branch of Xinchang County People’s Hospital.
In this operation, the air delivery system provided by Antwork was adopted. Its automatic and unmanned operation mode can significantly reduce the contact opportunities between samples and personnel in the transportation process, and improve the delivery speed.
It should also be noted that the Antwork branch company (Aerodeli), which undertook this operation task, had obtained the world’s first urban drone delivery “license” issued by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) in October 2019.
The sample delivery work will be carried out in strict accordance with the certified operation procedures to ensure the safety of medical samples in the transportation process.

Source: terra-drone