AAJ KI DELHI / INDIAN NEWS ONLINE
Washington: A large number of American companies like Google, Uber and IBM are offering their resources to help India successfully fight the battle against the deadly coronavirus pandemic.
Resources range from providing free digital education platform, donating face masks, boosting up ventilator production to converting shipping containers into ICU.
The death toll due to coronavirus in India rose to 414 and the number of cases to 12,380 in the country on Thursday, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday.
"So many businesses Indian and US are turning their tools towards specific needs that society has in beating back the pandemic. They are helping to bring all of their resources towards this battle,” Nisha Desai Biswal president of US India Business Council told PTI in an interview.
"So that when you have a surge in critical cases, and a shortage of ICUs house those that you can use other assets to try to do that," she said.
"(Indian) companies like Dynamitic, Mahindra, Tata are re-engineering their production capacity to make what is necessary. Companies like Abbott is fielding rapid coronavirus testing or Becton Dickenson, Medtronic, which are really boosting up ventilator production," Biswal said.
Google is partnering to do more online education for students in partnership with Pratham.
"Everyone is going into this with an attitude of what is the need of the hour and what can we do to help provide that until that critical need,” Biswal said.
Google has partnered with the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) to facilitate contributions to the PM CARES fund through Google Pay.
It is working closely with various ministries to help users to find useful information across its products and platforms and have rolled out an India-specific website on COVID-19 to share comprehensive information such as key helpline numbers, educational content, and a running snapshot of global and Indian statistics.
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