How Corona Warriors Are Saving Lives

From airports to hospitals: Meet the people who are working tirelessly at the forefront of India’s war on COVID-19 pandemic

- Ajay Kumar

THE CORONA CURVE

315 number of infection cases across India.

79 persons test positive for the virus on Saturday alone, forcing states into battle mode to contain the pandemic. Fresh precautionary measures and curbs ordered.

NOIDA SEC 74 housing complex under lockdown till tomorrow after a resident tests positive.

THE TRAIN TRAIL A quarantine-stamped couple travelling from Bengaluru to Delhi in a Rajdhani train deboarded in Telangana.

12 infected people travelled in trains across states from March 13-16, the Railways said and asked people to postpone journeys.

“FOR the past two months, lakhs of our people have been selflessly serving others day and night, without caring about themselves,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his Thursday’s address to the nation on the COVID-19 pandemic.

“On Sunday, at exactly 5 pm, we all stand at the doors, balconies and windows of our homes, and give them all a five-minute standing ovation. We clap our hands, beat our plates and ring our bells to boost their morale and salute their service,” he said.

As the nation gears up to rise in gratitude, Mail Today finds out how emergency service people are working tirelessly to flatten the Corona curve and what keeps them going.

Doctors, paramedics and nurses across Delhi-NCR, like elsewhere in the country, are risking their lives to ensure that the disease doesn’t spread from patients to family members and others.

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