India: How Bengaluru startup BlinkIn helped contain the Wuhan outbreak

India: How Bengaluru startup BlinkIn helped contain the Wuhan outbreak

Bengaluru, India. Photo by Dinker Gulati on Unsplash.

At the height of the Covid-19 outbreak in the Chinese province of Wuhan, where the coronavirus emerged, a Bengaluru startup’s innovation helped deal with it. Wuhan will be coming out of quarantine on April 8, after two and a half months of a lockdown, with new infections dropping to zero. As a Chinese official told Bloomberg in February, “It’s like fighting a war—some things are hard but must be done.”

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