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    How AI Is Helping Covid-19 Diagnostics And Detection

    Jun 01, 2020 3 minutes
    BY TSHILIDZI MARWALA

    IN THE EARLY HOURS of New Year’s Eve last year, BlueDot’s artificial intelligence (AI) warning system, which sifts through 100,000 articles and online posts daily in 65 languages, flagged a news report about a few “unusual pneumonia” cases happening in the crowded metropolis of Wuhan in China.

    The Toronto-based startup had spotted the coronavirus, or Covid-19, nine days before the World Health Organization (WHO) released a statement alerting

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