Pictures and videos of people emptying supermarket shelves or?arguing over packets?of toilet rolls can paint a bleak picture of the coronavirus outbreak.?
But, on the other side, there are people who are doing their best to make these trying times easier with kindness.?
WHO officials have said 'we are in it together' and even the smallest acts of help can go a long way in making people feel better.?There are a handful of examples of the way people have stepped up to care for each other and practice kindness amid the pandemic.?
In the wake of the growing crisis, one shop in Kerala amped up its efforts to make masks easily affordable. According to?The New Indian Express,?a distributor of surgical items in Kerala has been distributing face masks to high-risk groups at the original rate of Rs 2.??With the growing demand of face masks, the original price tag which was Rs 2 a piece soared to Rs 20, but this store decided to stick to the original costing and has so far sold nearly 5000 masks.
The Sikh community, known for their philanthropy have once again stepped in to help people in dire need.?
In the UK, the Sikh community?decided to help elderly people with free nutritious food and are delivering it to their houses?in a bid to help others combat the pandemic.??
In the wake of the rapidly multiplying cases of coronavirus patients, the?staff at a hospital in Italy realised they were running out of valves for ventilators needed by those most severely affected by COVID-19.?
That's when a local startup stepped up and?managed to get to the hospital to manufacture the valves using 3D-printing. The valve which was officially manufactured by a medical device manufacturer costs about Rs 8,16,722 while the replica which the volunteers made costs only about Rs 74. It helped save the lives of 10 coronavirus patients.?
In a Twitter thread,?a young woman explained how she helped purchase groceries for an elderly couple that was afraid to enter a grocery store.?
A Singaporean YouTuber Jennifer Le and her husband decided to help those in dire need. According to reports, back in February, they ordered ?6,600 face masks from Vietnam. It all started when Jennifer Le saw elderly people waiting hours in line outside pharmacies in Singapore to buy face masks, All the 6,600 masks they bought was distributed for free for those who needed them the most.?
The suspension of the NBA season due to coronavirus isn't just affecting players but also has a huge impact on stadium workers who get paid by the hour.??
Giannis Antetokounmpo, Zion Williamson and Blake Griffin are just some of the players to publicly announce they're donating thousands of dollars to those employees missing out on pay.?
Here, Gennaro Arma is photographed finally leaving the ship after over a month after overseeing the final transfer of all passengers to either a hospital or quarantine facility.
'Captain Arma was courageous, sympathetic and carried himself with dignity and optimism for what was an unprecedented and unique situation,' passenger Aun Na Tan wrote in an Instagram post. 'Through the entire journey, he sought to bring light to our circumstances and strove to reassure us as much as he could.'