Covid-19: Colombian police use drones to detect high body temperatures and quarantine violators

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.