  Due to the current COVID-19 virus, which has already been declared a pandemic
by the World Health Organization (WHO), we are witnessing the greatest pandemic
of the decade. Millions of people are being infected, resulting in thousands of
deaths every day across the globe. Even it was difficult for the best
healthcare-providing countries could not handle the pandemic because of the
strain of treating thousands of patients at a time. The count of infections and
deaths is increasing at an alarming rate because of the spread of the virus. We
believe that innovative technologies could help reduce pandemics to a certain
extent until we find a definite solution from the medical field to handle and
treat such pandemic situations. Technology innovation has the potential to
introduce new technologies that could support people and society during these
difficult times. Therefore, this paper proposes the idea of using drones as a
companion to tackle current and future pandemics. Our COROID drone is based on
the principle of crowdsourcing sensors data of the public's smart devices,
which can correlate the reading of the infrared cameras equipped on the COROID
drones. To the best of our knowledge, this concept has yet to be investigated
either as a concept or as a product. Therefore, we believe that the COROID
drone is innovative and has a huge potential to tackle COVID-19 and future
pandemics.
