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Social media turns national Covid helpline: Netizens come forward with help for beds, oxygen, plasma

Over the last few days, netizens have flooded the social media groups with very specific requests by Covid-19 patients

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Social media turns national Covid helpline: Netizens flood internet with help for beds, oxygen, plasma

Social media turns national Covid helpline: Netizens flood internet with help for beds, oxygen, plasma

New Delhi: The COVID-19 situation in India continues to deteriorate, as the country yet again reported the highest single-day spike of coronavirus cases with over 2.73 lakh fresh infections and 1,619 deaths in the last 24 hours.

According to the Health Ministry, India reported at least 2,73,810 new COVID-19 cases, taking the total number of positive cases in the country to 1,50,61,919. There are currently 19,29,329 active cases in the country as of Monday. The death toll reached 1,78,769 with additional 1,619 fatalities.

As many as 123.8 million shots have been administered since the nationwide inoculation programme kicked off on January 16. Of these, 1.2 million were given on Sunday.

Over the last few days, netizens have flooded the social media groups with very specific requests by Covid-19 patients — for oxygen cylinders, the drug remdesivir, hospital beds, and plasma donations.

Good samaritan came forward to help out the affected people:

https://twitter.com/PJkanojia/status/1383814880428363790?s=20 (?)

https://twitter.com/flowerforthesun/status/1383043486098726915?s=20