From A Volunteer Nurse To Donating Money, Here Is What Celebs Are Doing To Eradicate Covid-19 From India

Here is what celebs are doing to battle coronavirus.

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They might not be able to do anything technically, but celebs are trying their best to do something in this battle against the pandemic coronavirus which is taking lives of people and has taken over the entire world at the moment. While one actress has decided to become a volunteer, here is how other celebs are doing their bit.

In the morning, Viral Bhayani shared this beautiful piece f information on his Instagram account. He told us how an actress who was last seen with actor Sanjay Mishra in a movie, asked for permission to volunteer as a nurse and help out during these testing times. He wrote along with the images of Shika Malhotra: "She is an actress who was seen in the lead in the critically acclaimed film #Kannchli with actor Sanjay Mishra.

"Shikha Malhotra joined the BMC-run trauma hospital in Jogeshwari as a volunteer nurse on Friday. She has also urged all retired doctors and nurses to join the fight against Coronavirus at this crucial time. Shikha completed her nursing course from Vardhman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi in 2014.

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"As she moved towards acting, she never worked as one. BMC gave Shikha its approval letter and asked her to join the Hinduhrudaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Trauma Hospital in Jogeshwari East.

She has been deputed in the isolation ward. "After passing the course in college, we had taken the oath to serve society. I think this is the time to do so," she says.

Well this is one inspiring example and then there are celebs who donated big amounts to the PM Relief Funds and other bodies.

The latest we know is that Akshay Kumar donated Rs 25 crore to the relief fund. He shared it on his Twitter account.

It all started with South Indian Megastar Rajinikanth. He talked about donating Rs 50 lakh for the daily wage workers and then followed Pawan Kalyan and Ram Charan who donated money for the casualties of the coronavirus on their behalf.

Hrithik Roshan & Kapil Sharma too donated Rs 50 lakhs, Hrithik Roshan donated N95 and FFP3 masks for BMC workers by donating a fund of Rs 20 lakh to the Government of Maharashtra.

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Baahubali star Prabhas donated Rs 4 crores. Of which, 3 crore Prime Minister Relief Fund and 50-50 lakh Chief Minister Relief Fund have been given in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

Mahesh Babu donated Rs 1 crore and Sunny Deol donated Rs 50 lakhs in his parliamentary constituency.

Indian Sportswomen PV Sindhu and Hima Das as well made their contributions. PV Sindhu gave a donation of Rs 5 lakhs each which was received by CM Relief Fund in both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh Relief Fund. Hima Das donated a month's salary to the Assam government. Hima Das has donated this to the Assam Arogya Nidhi account.

Sachin Tendulkar also gave 50 lakhs by donating Rs 25 lakh to the PM Relief Fund and a donation of 25 lakh to the CM Relief Fund.

Irrfan Pathan and his brother Yusuf Pathan donated face masks and so did Nusrat Jahan also donated face masks to people a few days ago.

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