Moscow Has Been Ranked among Top 3 Cities in Terms of Innovations in the Fight against Covid-19

Among the main achievements are the Sputnik V vaccine, artificial intelligence for recognizing COVID-induced pneumonia, self-isolation index, service for delivery of COVID-19 tests, telemedicine platforms and diagnostic systems.

Moscow has been ranked among top three in terms of innovations in the fight against COVID-19 compiled by the Startup international analytical center, specializing in research of innovative ecological systems of various countries and cities of the world. Sergei Sobyanin wrote about this in his weblog.

The rating of innovations in the fight against coronavirus includes 100 cities. The Russian capital city was only surpassed by San Francisco and New York, but Moscow did better than Boston, Toronto, Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, Seoul, Taipei, and San Diego.

Back in March last year, Startup in cooperation with UNAIDS, Health Innovation Exchange of Healthcare of the United Nations Program on HIV and AIDS created the global map of innovative solutions — an open data of the best practices to fight the coronavirus in various cities and countries around the world.

Applications for publishing solutions are accepted from analysis centers, startups, companies, cities, and countries around the world. The solutions are moderated by the UNAIDS experts. Preference is given not to ideas and prototypes, but to the systems that are used in real-case scenarios.

Over the past year, the map has become one of the main platforms for the sharing pandemic response experience internationally between dozens of countries and hundreds of cities worldwide.

Moscow contributed 46 innovative solutions that helped Muscovites through the rough times.

These solutions helped Moscow secure the third place in the prestigious rating, but what is the most important – they saved thousands of lives.