EHang provides aerial support to Guangzhou City in response to first community outbreak of Delta SARS-CoV‑2 variant

EHang has been using its autonomous aer­i­al vehi­cle (AAV) tech­nol­o­gy to com­plete var­i­ous tasks and mis­sions in Guangzhou City, as the city gets put into lock­down in what is believed to be the first com­mu­ni­ty out­break of Delta SARS-CoV­‑2 in Chi­na.

Guang­dong Province had been report­ing dai­ly sin­gle fig­ures of local cas­es, includ­ing asymp­to­matic cas­es, for more than a week at the start of June, until the case load sud­den­ly jumped to 23 at the start of June. Hun­dreds of flights have since been can­celled and author­i­ties have forced res­i­dents in some streets of the Liwan neigh­bour­hood of the city to iso­late.

With this increased pres­sure and chal­lenges brought to the com­mu­ni­ty, EHang has been deploy­ing its 216 and 216L since June 4th, as well as its Fal­con B series for epi­dem­ic pre­ven­tion and con­trol efforts. The 216 and 216L AAVs built emer­gency air trans­porta­tion routes across the Pearl Riv­er in Guangzhou, com­plet­ing mul­ti­ple con­tact­less relief and sup­port tasks in the quar­an­tine and con­tain­ment zones.

Tasks cov­ered aer­i­al logis­tics, emer­gency trans­porta­tion, aer­i­al inspec­tions and broad­cast­ing. Also includ­ed in the tasks were trans­port­ing nec­es­sary house­hold sup­plies to res­i­dents in the quar­an­tine zones and imple­ment­ing urban air mobil­i­ty sys­tems in emer­gency trans­porta­tion sce­nar­ios.

Going for­ward, EHang’s des­ig­nat­ed flight oper­a­tions team will main­tain its sta­tion near the quar­an­tine and con­tain­ment zones to con­tin­ue with house­hold and emer­gency sup­ply air trans­port to reduce risks of front-line staff con­tact­ing the virus.

Click on the video below to see how EHang has been help­ing the city cope with the rise in cas­es.

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