Saluting The COVID Heroes Townhall with Amitabh Bachchan honours the efforts of ordinary people who made extraordinary contribution to help those in need during the COVID-19 pandemic, sometimes at great risk to their own lives.
Dr Harmandeep Singh Boparai, a frontline worker from New York returned to India to serve his country during the pandemic and is now training medical staff in COVID protocols
We have been fighting this war, this invisible enemy for more than a year now and it's a global war. Whether the front is New York or back here at home in Amritsar or Mumbai, it's the same fight. And with all that we learned and I learned with my experience fighting in New York, if I weren't able to bring it back home to India, to my people at a time of crisis you know, it wouldn't have been worth it, so it was really a no brainer to come back since things got so bad here during the second wave.