Real estate investor Tom Barrack on how the outbreak is impacting the housing market. Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. As nations around the world scramble to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, straining medical resources and overburdening doctors, governments are turning to technology to help fight back the outbreak. Multiple Asian governments have used smartphone apps to track data of users who have tested positive for COVID-19. In South Korea, a compulsory app enforces self-isolation for those ordered to maintain it. Taiwan and Singapore are also using smartphone apps to enforce quarantines via "electronic fences" that alert authorities when someone moves out of quarantine.

Over 4,000 blood drives have been canceled; Bryan Llenas reports. Hospitals in Thailand have begun using "ninja robots" to ease the burden on medical workers and doctors fighting to curb the spread of the coronavirus. The robots, which were originally built to monitor recovering stroke patients, have been repurposed to measure patients' fevers, AFP reported. In this photo taken on March 18, 2020 a robot modified to screen and observe COVID-19 coronavirus patients is photographed at the Regional Center of Robotics Technology at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. The machines have, as of Thursday, been used at four hospitals in and around Bangkok, according to the outlet.