Corona  

Banks can provide fresh lending support to vaccine manufacturers, importers or suppliers of vaccines and priority medical devices; hospitals and dispensaries; pathology labs; manufacturers and suppliers of oxygen and ventilators; importers of vaccines and Covid-related drugs; logistics firms and patients for treatment

Senior journalist Kanchan Gupta lost his father to covid. But even during this crisis, his family decided not to use ventilator as they felt other patients with higher chances of living could use it 
 

Transgenders in Mumbai are coming forward to help fellow citizens by distributing rations to the needy and necessitous  

The Indian railways has extended its Oxygen Express service to Haryana and Telangana as well

As the state reels under the second wave of coronavirus, the ministers of Karnataka have unanimously decided to contribute their one year's salary for Covid relief work in the state
 

Three naval hospitals under Western Naval Command (WNC) have been kept ready for use by the civil administration

In the next three months, the DRDO will set up as many as 500 oxygen plants. These plants will come up using the funds from the PMCARES fund
 

A pregnant nurse in Gujarat has been attending to patients at a covid centre even as she observes Roza 

As the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic hits India hard, the nation fights as one, with its people and personnel in service sectors doing whatever they can to alleviate the misery and ameliorate the conditions  
 

Actor Gurmeet Choudhary, who has earned popularity with his role as Lord Ram in TV series Ramayan, will open a 1000-bed super modern hospital in Patna and Lucknow    
 

Under the PMCARES Fund, the Centre has allocated funds to install 551 PSA Oxygen Generation Plants in public health facilities
 

The Indian armed forces are going all out to assist the nation in fighting back the second wave of Coronavirus cases

3 engineering students have designed a robot that can spray chemicals from as far away as 400 metres 

An Indian Council of Medical Research study has shown that Bharat Biotech's Covaxin can effectively neutralise multiple variants of SARS-CoV-2 as well as the double mutant strain
 

In an important move, Assam has decided to vaccinate its younger population (18+) free of cost