On March 18th,Nokia announced the establishment of Global Coronavirus Endowment Fund to help fight the epidemic and provide assistance to countries in need.
As early as February 7,Nokia Shanghai Bell(Nokia’s joint venture subsidiary in China)donated 3 million RMB to the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation,and established the Nokia Shanghai Bell Emergency Relief Fund,to coordinate emergency rescue and the end of epidemic recovery and reconstruction efforts in Wuhan.
Nokia Shanghai Bell Emergency Relief Fund donated a total of 8 negative pressure ambulances and other medical supplies under the guidance of National Health Commission and other government agencies to support epidemic control for hospitals in Hubei,to prevent cross-infection of healthcare workers,and to prevent the further spread of the virus. The eight ambulances were delivered to the Third People’s Hospital of Hubei Province(Zhongshan Hospital of Hubei Province),People’s Hospital of Wuhan University(People’s Hospital of Hubei Province),Huanggang People’s Hospital of Hongan County,Affiliated Hospital of Jingzhou Guangdong Medical University,Central People’s Hospital of Yichang City and Xiyuan Hospital of Shiyan City.
Since the happening of the epidemic,Nokia along with our Chinese customers and partners,have been standing on the front lines of epidemic control. On January 25th,we assisted Wuhan Telecom to open the first 5G base station for Wuhan “Huoshenshan” hospital in only one and a half days. On January 29th,we joined forces with Liaoning Unicom to setup wireless connection for the Liaoning Provincial People’s Hospital Coronavirus isolation ward in just 1 day. We successfully implemented technologies to enable functions such as remote patient checkup,remote monitoring,remote patient visits,and remote communications. On January 30,we completed the wireless connection network construction for Yinchuan Coronavirus temporary isolation and ICU hospital in just 3 days,under the overall direction of Ningxia Mobile.
On February 12,we supported Liaoning Unicom again to assist expanded wireless network coverage and remote monitoring capabilities,to support the expansion of the isolation ward of Liaoning Provincial People’s Hospital. On February 12,we opened 5G network coverage for Suzhou “Xiaotangshan” Hospital,and overcame difficulties for “high-speed operation” and the requirements for expedited and comprehensive network construction. As of now,Nokia has actively supported China’s three major operators and China Tower companies,while investing a total of 5000 personnel and 33,000 sets of equipment to set up 7 * 24 guaranteed network security monitoring stations,while fully adhering to the emergency response mandates to ensure continued stable network operations for all key service areas in China,such as in Beijing,Guangdong,Zhejiang,Fujian,Guizhou and Henan.
In addition,Nokia has actively provided new technologies and solutions to help fight the Coronavirus epidemic. On January 27,it only took one day to help Sichuan Mobile to complete the launch of the new big data monitoring and analysis platform for Coronavirus prevention. This system can be used to identify whether the infected person was someone with a travel history within the last month,and also target locations with high-frequency for suspected patients,so healthcare workers can carry out comprehensive preventive disinfection and inspection and treatment of residential areas and buildings where confirmed cases reside frequently,and isolate residential areas and buildings for 10 day monitoring where there are an accumulation of patients or identified severe cases of illness. Nokia’s Big Data solution was highly recognized by the Governor Yin Li of Sichuan Province.
In addition,Nokia quickly launched the high-precision,long-distance,large-scale infrared body temperature detection solution(through AI automatic identification and processing,and can achieve non-contact temperature measurement in crowded public places,large-scale crowd real-time temperature measurement,automatic capture of fever individuals with accuracy while ensuring no targets are missed),Nokia’s infrared body temperature detection solutions have now been deployed in Shanghai,Hunan,Sichuan and other places.
As Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri stated in a letter to the Chinese government and customers on February 3,“Nokia has been in service to China over the past 40 years and has experienced together many good and also difficult times together with our customers and communities in China,such as the SARS outbreak in 2003,Wenchuan earthquake and the Olympic Games in the same year in 2008,as well as World Expo in 2010. This time we remain confident that by working together,we will overcome the challenges jointly once again!China,Be Strong!”