Family members of Tapas Panda help pack the food for patients
BHUBANESWAR: With the number of Covid cases on the rise, and a large number of them in home isolation, several good Samaritans have come forward to provide home cooked meal for them, free of cost.
Tapas Kumar Panda, an associate professor of MBA at Utkal University and his wife Rajashree, a teacher, had started cooking food and delivering it to a few friends and relatives after they got infected and were in home quarantine. Later, they posted messages promising free food for Covid infected on social media and they started getting more and more requests. These days they are delivering over 400 food packets per day. In the past one month around 20 home chefs have joined hands with the Pandas and formed the group ‘Ek Aur Roti’.
New Delhi, India – Concerned by a spike in COVID-19 infections in her gated community in Noida, a city bordering New Delhi, Plaksha Aggarwal wanted to help and started cooking for the patients and their families.
After catering to a few families within her apartment complex earlier this month, she started getting calls from around the city.
“I could not refuse people. They wouldn’t be calling unless they needed help. Some orders were for people who had just lost family members,” she told Al Jazeera.
Within a week, Aggarwal was preparing 120 meals a day.
“While in home isolation, having someone take care of your food or your kids’ meals because you cannot cook for them is just one less thing to stress about,” she says.