Amid the Coronavirus pandemic which is affecting both the lives of people and the economy of countries, many major companies and their leaders have donated money and or resources to help fight the virus. One such case the automobile giant Mahindra and Mahindra and its leader Anand Mahindra.
Even though the government is trying its best to control the spread of the virus. It is not enough and requires help from people in a position that can provide with resources needed to fight back. As the infection rates rise exponentially.
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Anand Mahindra, in a series of tweets, said that their factories will now be making ventilators. He has also offered Mahindra holiday resorts as temporary medical care facilities as hospitals don’t have a large number of beds if the virus starts spreading at a faster rate.
He also said that he will be contributing 100% of his salary towards creating funds to help the small business hit hardest due to shutting down of factories by the coronavirus.
This is the case worldwide where multiple executives have offered their services to help and have provided money to the respective governments to help with the fight against the virus. These include Jack Ma CEO Alibaba, Elon Musk CEO Tesla and Tim Cook CEO of Apple.
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The Resorts offered by Mahindra will help in the upcoming days as India is slowly shifting towards stage 3 of a pandemic in which the virus spreads in a community thus increases its infection rate 10 folds. More beds will be needed for the sick soon and the resorts will help by acting as a temporary health care shelter.
India is currently in a lockdown state in order to somehow limit the speed of infection spread and thus reducing the spread of the virus. This lockdown is for the good of us as the less human contact we have the lower the chance of catching the virus and spreading it further.
