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B-Life - Space enabled mobile lab fighting COVID-19
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- Title B-Life - Space enabled mobile lab fighting COVID-19
- Released: 17/06/2020
- Length 00:04:41
- Language English
- Footage Type TV Exchanges
- Copyright ESA
- Description
While the COVID-19 pandemic is still raging in many countries across the globe, in Europe it seems the first peak has passed. In Italy, which has been struck extremely hard by the pandemic, the local authorities of the Piedmont region have requested the deployment of B-LiFE, a mobile laboratory, in order to test their frontline responders such as healthcare workers, civil protection volunteers and members of the emergency services. The test will show whether they have the coronavirus, and also whether or not those who have been infected have had an immune response to the virus. B-Life is a project that has been developed within the ESA Space Solutions programme and shows how space technology benefits people on the ground in times of crisis.
This video includes interviews of :
- ITW Jean-Luc Gala: Director of the Centre for Applied Molecular Technologies, UCLouvain – in English & French
- ITW Arnaud Runge: Medical Engineer B-LiFE, ESA - in English & French
- ITW Roland Gueubel: Director of B-LiFE, UCLouvain – in English ( B-Roll only)
- Script
2006_ESA_B-life_Final Script_shotlist_TC-ok.doc