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TRIKALA, Greece (Reuters) – Greece on Tuesday tested a drone to deliver medicines to isolated places in an environmentally friendly way, sending the unmanned vehicle to a 200-person village.<\/p>\n

The red drone with four rotor blades took off from the northwestern Greek city of Trikala and flew 3 kilometers (0.5 miles) to Leptokarya. It made two stops, landing outside a pharmacy and in a farmer\u2019s field.<\/p>\n

A pharmacy staff member unloaded the medicine from a storage compartment on the drone, and it took off again.<\/p>\n

\u201cTechnology can give real solutions to real problems that we have today. Today we transported medicines to a pharmacy nearby, tomorrow it could be to transport medicines to some emergency,\u201d said Trikala Mayor Dimitris Papastergiou.<\/p>\n

The EU-funded program called Harmony aims to use low carbon and less resource intensive solutions for transport.<\/p>\n

The drone program is intended to serve people with mobility issues, isolated villages and homes and sites of emergencies. Officials said the project is particularly crucial during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt concerns situations where immediate help will be needed, or people and places that are isolated,\u201d said Dimitris Anastasiou, president of the Trikala pharmacists\u2019 association.<\/p>\n

The Harmony program, which also has autonomous vehicles, will be tested in six cities in Europe and Britain.<\/p>\n

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