The body temperature measurement cameras installed in the stations of the Lapa and Pirajá Metro System in Salvador, Bahia, have already reached the total of 692,534 passengers monitored, until 14th of July. The equipment began functioning on June 1st, as a strategy to combat the spread of the new coronavirus. Of the total number of people monitored, 496 of them had a temperature greater than or equal to 37.8º C and 224 maintained the change in the control, which may indicate infection by Covid-19.
Cameras capable of identifying people in a feverish state are monitoring subway passengers at Lapa and Pirajá stations. The equipment is capable of identifying, in real time and amidst the movement of a large number of passengers, those who have a body temperature above 37.8º C, from which the health protocols point out as possible carriers of the new coronavirus.
Passengers identified by the cameras are approached and taken to the stations’ first aid room, where they receive safety and isolation information and also take the rapid test for Covid-19 detection.
The monitoring of passenger temperature by cameras was implemented by Sesab and by the State Secretariat for Urban Development in Bahia (Sedur), through the Companhia de Transportes do Estado da Bahia (CTB), and with the support of CCR Metrô Bahia. According to the CEO of CTB, Eduardo Copello, “the monitoring by the cameras and the carrying out of tests on passengers, join the measures already implemented to clean the cars, turnstiles, use of masks by passengers and seek to bring security to avoid transmission of the virus in an environment with a high flow of people”.
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