India's Cleanest City, Indore, Deployed Drones To Sanitize Crowded Places Amid COVID-19 Outbreak

India’s cleanest city, Indore, plans to deploy a mean like no others to sanitize the whole city in a bid to ward off COVID-19, drones.

Two drones from an Indian private company were rented by the Indore Municipal Corporation, making Indore the first city across India to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus in this way.

Ashish Singh, Municipal Commissioner of the city said that this was a unique way to sanitize crowded places. What they intended to do is to spray chemicals using these two drones.

The places on the sanitizing list include streets and vegetable markets and the chemicals in use are bio-clean and sodium hypochlorite. The endeavor started at Choithram mandi and some other places on Saturday, as stated by the Municipal Commissioner.

According to the Municipal Corporation officers, each flight lasts for 30 minutes and the drones take off with 16 liters of chemicals onboard, covering an area spanning up to 10 km.

An official also ensured that the corporation took special care to make sure that the chemicals do no harm to the citizens of the city.

After malls and supermarkets were closed, vendors have also locked down markets. The markets in Indore will remain shut until the 31th of March and the Ahilya Chamber of Commerce and Industry, representing more than 100 trade bodies in the city will make sure of this.

However, this total shutdown spares vendors supplying essential commodities like ration, milk, and medicines.

Millions of people in India are staying in their houses as several states have ordered a total shut down in a bid to stop the spread of COVID-19. All business establishments, factories, educational institutes, government offices, private offices, autonomous bodies, and public transport will be closed in these regions.

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