A Colombian police officer operates a drone that measures body temperature, in an area of high contagion amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, in Bogota, Colombia. — Reuters
BOGOTA: It is not a bird, a plane or Superman: the aircraft humming in the skies above Colombia's capital Bogota are instead police drones that are meant to detect people with high temperatures or those violating the country's coronavirus quarantine.
If a drone detects someone with a potential fever it sends the location to a medical team that seeks out the person to determine if they have coronavirus symptoms, officials said on Wednesday.
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A Colombian police officer operates a drone that measures body temperature, in an area of high contagion amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, in Bogota, Colombia. — Reuters
A Colombian police officer operates a drone that measures body temperature, in an area of high contagion amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, in Bogota, Colombia. — Reuters
A Colombian police officer operates a drone that measures body temperature, in an area of high contagion amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, in Bogota, Colombia. — Reuters
A Colombian police officer sets a drone that measures body temperature, in an area of high contagion amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, in Bogota, Colombia. — Reuters
A Colombian police officer monitors the screenings of a drone that measures body temperature, in an area of high contagion amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, in Bogota, Colombia. — Reuters
Colombian police officers monitor the screenings of a drone that measures body temperature, in an area of high contagion amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, in Bogota, Colombia. — Reuters
A Colombian police officer monitors the screenings of a drone that measures body temperature, in an area of high contagion amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, in Bogota, Colombia. — Reuters
A Colombian police officer monitors the screenings of a drone that measures body temperature, in an area of high contagion amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, in Bogota, Colombia. — Reuters
A Colombian police officer operates a drone that measures body temperature, in an area of high contagion amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Bogota, Colombia May 20, 2020. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez
A drone that measures the body temperature of people, operated by a Colombian police officer, flies over one of the areas with the most cases of infections amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak in Bogota, Colombia. — Reuters
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