Rwanda to start using drones to supply vaccines, blood in August


  • TECH
  • Monday, 16 May 2016

Eric Watson, a systems engineer with Zipline International, loads a payload into a Zipline aerial delivery drone during a flight demonstration at an undisclosed location in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, U.S., May 5, 2016. REUTERS/Stephen Lam

KIGALI: President Paul Kagame said Rwanda was keen on plans to use drones to deliver blood supplies and vaccines, and was working with US-based firm Zipline to launch the service by August. 

International delivery company UPS is backing robotics company Zipline International Inc in a partnership which also includes Gavi, a group providing vaccines to poor countries. 

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