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From creating live-tracking apps to platforms for home cooks, meet the people who are stepping up in the midst of the second wave
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From creating live-tracking apps to platforms for home cooks, meet the people who are stepping up in the midst of the second wave
They may not be on the frontline, but meet a few poeple who are making a huge difference rallying volunteers, helping furries, and helping disseminate verified leads and information.
Neysa Mendes, Mumbai
#BakeForIndia
The hashtag opens a gorgeous page full of tarts, cookies, brownies and more. All of that deliciousness, however, has an interesting origin story. “I was channelling the anger, despair and grief [at the disastrous situation we are in] into action,” says Mendes, 37, a food stylist and recipe developer, who decided to use her skills as a baker to raise funds. When she posted about 12 dark chocolate tarts that she was making, though, she also extended an in
Social Media Patrol: Saving Lives by Delivering COVID-19 Resources to the Distressed By Aravind Palakkal, Online Content Editor, SiliconIndia | Thursday, 29 April 2021, 16:47 Hrs
COVID-19 pandemic outbreak is changed everything in the system of the nation. This tale epidemic has controverted India’s medical and public health infrastructure. Right now the amount of
COVID cases is bouncing in
millions. The departments of health care around the globe are analyzing for an efficient cure establishment for
COVID-19. The Ministry of
Health and Family Welfare of
India (MOHFW) has raised numerous measures to increase awareness on COVID-19 and the obligatory actions to control the outbreak of the virus. Both central and state governments were initiating protocols to take the control of the outbreak.
Hospitals in the country are struggling to cope with shortages of beds and oxygen supplies some say they only have a few hours of oxygen supply left. Crematoriums are also starting to melt from operating for so long.
Prashant Kanojia, member of the Rashtriya Lok Dal party in India and a former journalist, on Sunday tweeted with the hashtag #CovidSOS that a hospital in Meerut, north India, needed urgent oxygen supplies.
In response to a thread by journalist Swati Chaturvedi to amplify people s requests for help, one Twitter user said her relative was a critical cancer patient who couldn t be transferred to ICU because there were no beds available.