“Rwanda is a fast-growing African leader in using innovative Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to bring rapid, high-quality, connected diagnostics to the community level everywhere. We are confident the Fionet Platform will serve Rwanda’s objective very well. COVID-19 continues to demonstrate that such an objective is just as important in developed countries,” said Dr.
Malaria is a serious, sometimes fatal, disease spread by mosquitoes and caused by a parasite. It is contracted by over 200 million people per year, and kills over 400,000 people annually, of whom two-thirds are children under the age of five1. Nearly half of the world’s population lives in areas at risk of malaria transmission.
The Fionet Platform can enhance the quality of healthcare delivered in decentralized health centers, health posts, and communities in
Fionet’s accuracy, data capture and distribution capability was demonstrated in a paper published in a technical journal by the
Prior to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Fionet was successfully used to test and track over one million patients in remote settings around the world for infectious diseases including malaria, HIV and dengue fever.
The Fionet Platform was most recently deployed for COVID-19 testing at the 46th edition of the
The Company announces that it has granted an aggregate of 500,000 options to purchase common shares of the Company at today’s closing price, and expiring five (5) years from the date of grant, to certain officers, directors and consultants of the Company.
RECENT NEWS: Relay announces agreement with Unisys (NYSE: UIS)5, a global IT solutions company, to market a combined solution for COVID-19 and biosecurity market needs: https://bit.ly/3AqDI0h
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1 https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/malaria
2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda
3 MALARIA DEATH RATE BY COUNTRY (worldlifeexpectancy.com)
4 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214180418300412
5 https://www.nyse.com/quote/XNYS:UIS
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