New Delhi, Apr 30 (PTI): Contributions from homegrown and worldwide firms, together with Dream Sports, Uber and Capgemini, continue to pour in to help India’s fight against COVID-19 amid the lethal second wave of the pandemic in the nation.
Dream Sports – which operates e-sports platform Dream11 – has donated Rs 15 crore to GiveIndia and ACT Grants for medical gear, hospital beds and aiding the vaccination drive.
“Half of this shall be spent on fixing the present drawback of supplying medical gear and hospital beds and the opposite half will go in direction of supporting giant scale vaccination drives.
“We will also be enabling contributions on our apps in a couple of days from all Sportans, our over 100 million users, and anyone else, to expedite the war against Covid-19,” a Dream Sports spokesperson stated.
The huge rise in infections in the second wave of the pandemic has led to hospitals in a number of states reeling underneath a scarcity of medical oxygen and beds. Social media timelines are full of SOS calls with individuals on the lookout for oxygen cylinders, hospital beds, plasma donors and ventilators. Organisations throughout the spectrum have come ahead to help the fight against the COVID pandemic.
Ride-hailing platform Uber stated it is going to spend Rs 18.5 crore (USD 2.5 million) to get 1.5 lakh drivers on its platform vaccinated over the subsequent six months.
The firm will compensate automotive, auto and moto drivers on its platform for time spent getting their pictures, it stated in an announcement.
“Drivers showing valid digital vaccination certificates will be eligible for Rs 400 for each of their two shots. All drivers able to show they’ve been vaccinated before April 30 will also be able to claim the funds,” it added.
Pavan Vaish, Head of Supply and Driver Operations at Uber India South Asia, stated mass vaccination is vital to tackling India’s COVID disaster, and that is one of the best ways to make sure that drivers, riders and the broader group can get protected as quickly as attainable.
“Over the final 12 months, Uber drivers have proven time and time once more they’re important in protecting India shifting and linked, so we wish to help them in getting the very best entry to the vaccination program. We will quickly start speaking this initiative to drivers throughout all our product traces, and encourage them to take up the supply,? he added.
IT agency Capgemini stated it is going to cowl the price of coronavirus vaccines of all eligible staff and their dependents and is working with companions to allow on-premise vaccination companies.
The firm has arrange a centralised, all-India command centre to handle staff’ and their dependent’s medical emergencies and desires associated to the supply of hospital beds, ICU, ventilators, ambulance service, blood plasma donors, oxygen concentrators, and drugs requests.
It has additionally began an initiative to present home-cooked meals to colleagues affected by COVID-19 and has additionally partnered with varied motels to present quarantine centres for 14 days.
“At Capgemini, we have initiated Project O2 to provide Oxygen Concentrators for our colleagues and their dependent family members who have been impacted by COVID-19…Capgemini has introduced Covid-19 response products like oximeter, N95 masks and infrared thermometers which can be ordered by all Capgemini colleagues and have them delivered to their current place of residence,” it added.
Besides, Capgemini Group had instituted a Benevolent Fund final 12 months for Capgemini India staff and their households.
As a part of this fund, a corpus of 25 million euros (Rs 200 crore) was parked individually and the revenue generated from this corpus was used in direction of well being and security areas for Capgemini India staff and their households.
Cloud-based software program supplier Salesforce is making a USD 1 million donation to assist with COVID reduction on the bottom to native companions centered on medical gear and provide sourcing, vaccine consciousness and distribution, group isolation centres, and meals safety.
It has launched a worldwide worker giving and matching marketing campaign to additional the impression and can also be working with companions to supply and ship medical instruments and provides.
Bike taxi platform Rapido stated it has partnered with important suppliers like Zomato, Swiggy, BigBasket, Delhivery, Grab, Xpressbees, and Udaan for aiding last-mile deliveries.
“These partnerships are stay throughout Delhi NCR, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Vijayawada, Tirupati, and Guntur.
Rapido is supporting these companions in the supply of medicines, important groceries, and meals from eating places, serving to small-scale industries replenish their stock and discovering extra methods of contributing to the fight against COVID-19,” Proful Lall, Vice President (Corporate Affairs) at Rapido, stated.
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