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In grim fight against coronavirus, there also are these stories of hope

Besides several helpful Facebook pages, students are operating nine helplines at the helpdesk of Miranda House, almost around the clock, to assist in whatever way they can

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A man checks the oxygen level of a patient outside a gurdwara in New Delhi

Geetanjali Krishna New Delhi
At around 5 pm on April 26, a Facebook user from Noida posted an urgent appeal for help in securing a hospital bed or a trained nurse for her father whose oxygen levels were fluctuating. Within the hour, her post had generated sympathy, advice and several leads, including contact numbers of doctors at the Covid Care Centre at Commonwealth Games Village at Delhi’s Akshardham.
 
Helpful, verified leads came from the Facebook page “Covid Community Delhi/NCR - Information Facts Support” that was set up to crowdsource information about Covid at the beginning of the pandemic when few knew much about