An app a day: China embraces tele-medicine to keep the doctor away

Ping An Good Doctor app, an online healthcare platform operated by Ping An Healthcare and Technology Co Ltd, has been visited 11 billion times since the outbreak erupted, the company said. — Reuters

SHANGHAI: As the coronavirus crisis rages, a Chinese woman working in Paris takes to a computer to consult a doctor thousands of kilometres away in Shanghai about a worrisome cough and headache.

The physician says she probably has the common cold and prescribes rest, in a cyber-consultation that embodies the huge push the coronavirus epidemic has given tele-medicine.