In this issue

Highlights of India Today – May 18, 2020 issue:
This week's Cover Story talks about the frontline workers risking their lives and battling the deadly coronavirus.

The Big Story talks about Covid-19 wreaking havoc on the body’s immune system, placing people with comorbidities at maximum risk.

The issue also focuses on Mumbai having, the largest number of coronavirus cases in India and the struggle to get the country’s economic capital back on its feet.

THE MIGRANT DILEMMA

Rakesh Paswan, a 30-year-old mason from East Champaran in Bihar, made a scarce living in the national capital region until the lockdown on March 25. Struggling with unemployment and hunger, when the shutdown was extended till May 3, he cycled 1,100 kilometres to go home.

4 mins

Kerala's Reverse Migration Headache

The mass reverse migration from the gulf of non-resident keralites will challenge chief minister pinarayi vijayan’s optimism that their return is, in fact, an opportunity

7 mins

A CITY IN CRISIS

Mumbai has India’s largest number of coronavirus cases. What will it take to get the country’s economic capital back on its feet?

8 mins

BODY BLOW

MORE THAN JUST VIRAL PNEUMONIA, COVID IS WREAKING HAVOC ON THE BODY’S IMMUNE SYSTEM, PLACING PEOPLE WITH COMORBIDITIES AT MAXIMUM RISK

7 mins

HEROES OF THE HOUR

IN THE BATTLE AGAINST COVID-19, ORDINARY INDIANS HAVE SHOWN EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE TO ENSURE THE COUNTRY’S WELL-BEING EVEN AS THEY PUT THEIR OWN LIVES AT RISK

6 mins

ANGELS OF MERCY

UNWAVERING IN THEIR COMMITMENT, AWAY FROM THEIR FAMILIES AND LIVES, AND SUPERHUMAN IN THEIR ENDEAVOURS, THESE MEDICS AT THE FRONTLINES OF COVID WOULD DO HIPPOCRATES PROUD

6 mins

CIRCLE OF REASON

GANESH REDDY, 50 CEO & SECRETARY, CITIZEN FOUNDATION, Ranchi - COVID DEED Helping citizens of Ranchi follow social distancing norms

2 mins

Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man

PRATYAYA AMRIT, 52 PRINCIPAL SECRETARY, DISASTER MANAGEMENT, Bihar. COVID DEED In charge of the state’s response to the reverse migration, he leads the mammoth exercise of quarantining perhaps 800,000 people

3 mins

FIREFIGHTING ON ALL FRONTS

MUMBAI FIRE BRIGADE PRABHAT RAHANGDALE, 55 CHIEF FIRE OFFICER. COVID DEED The brigade’s jawans have sanitised a 17,000 km size area in the city

3 mins

GOODS SAMARITAN

MOHAMMAD SHAKIR RAZA, 41 FREIGHT TRAIN DRIVER, New Delhi. COVID DEED Transports essential supplies during the national lockdown

3 mins

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