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DAVANGERE: Unlike others of their age, these youths get up early in the morning, fix a pump to their back, carry bags containing disinfectants, and set out on a journey to fight Covid-19 by sanitizing public places in Davangere city.
When everyone lived in fear of the Covid-19 during the second wave, this 20-year-old young woman along with her 16-year-old friend decided to spray disinfectants in the locality and help the public.
Soujanya and her friend Rudresh spray the mixture of sodium hypochloride and Dettol at various localities starting early every morning. Till now, they have covered PJ Extension, MCC A and B blocks, Durgamma Temple, KTJ Nagar, KTJ Nagar police station, clock tower, Chamarajpet, MG Road, Ram, and Co circle, Vinobha Nagar, Church road and other areas and also sanitised nearly four houses of Covid-19 patients.
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CHITRADURGA: Milan Rafiq, who runs an old furniture shop in Hiriyur town, is not allowed to park his Maruti Omni in front of his house, and neither do his neighbours visit him. For he has converted his Omni into a hearse, and ferries bodies of Covid patients to graveyards and crematoriums. He also completes the last rites, and has cremated and buried more than 200 bodies, of which around 80 were of Covid patients. His aim is to give people a final dignified departure, surprising at a time when friends and families are known to abandon both the living and dead.
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DAVANGERE: Habeebunissa may be just 19, with limited resources, but has displayed grit and initiative. As Davanagere locked itself in to stave off the Covid second wave, this young woman ventured out to help the needy. The international volleyball player has been winning hearts, especially after a video of her carrying an oxygen cylinder on her brother’s bike went viral last week.
The patient in distress had got a bed at CG Hospital, but there was no oxygen, and the family was asked to source a cylinder. She swung into action, collected the cylinder and rushed to hospital. She is glad that the patient survived. She went on to arrange four more cylinders.