Moneygall, IRELAND (Reuters) – Ireland’s Manna Aero should have been dropping off its first takeaway orders around a Dublin university campus by drone in March but then the coronavirus pandemic shut the country and its pilot programme down.
FILE PHOTO: A Manna Aero drone is seen as it delivers essential household and medical supplies in the village of Moneygall, following the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Ireland May 8, 2020. REUTERS/Jason Cairnduff
Within a week, the drone company was testing out an entirely different concept – delivering medication and critical supplies to isolated elderly people whom the Irish government had told to stay home to avoid infection.
Manna worked with Ireland’s health service operator to try out the system in Moneygall, the small midlands town best known for its ancestral links to former U.S. President Barack Obama, who visited in 2011.
After weeks of flying to and from residents’ homes, the local pharmacy and convenience store -…
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