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Alphabet Inc’s Wing unit is seeing a dramatic increase in the number of customers using its drone delivery service in rural Virginia during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Wing, which began routine deliveries under a test programme approved by the federal government last October, has added new vendors and expanded the items customers can order to better serve people during the epidemic, the company said in a statement.
“The technology is particularly useful at a time when people are homebound in many cases and the need to limit human-to-human contact is important,†spokesman Jonathan Bass said.