India's young fight the pandemic with apps and oxygen

Shanawaz Shaikh, who sold his SUV to raise funds to provide oxygen cylinders to needy people amid the pandemic, checks the pressure of a cylinder at an oxygen distribution centre in a slum in Mumbai. — AFP

Her exam revision done, schoolgirl Swadha Prasad gets on with her real work: finding life-saving oxygen, drugs and hospital beds for Covid-19 patients as India reels from a brutal second wave of infections.

As their government struggles to tackle the pandemic, young Indians have stepped into the breach, setting up apps to crowdsource aid, delivering key supplies and using social media to direct resources to people in need.