Amazon, Intel and others step up to fight country’s coronavirus crisis

Global and Indian firms are flexing their industrial muscle to help the world’s second-biggest population battle coronavirus, coming to the rescue of a public health system buckling under the weight of surging infections and deaths.

Amazon.com, Intel and Google, as well as Indian firms Tata Sons, Reliance Industries and JSW Steel have pitched in with everything from airlifts of medical equipment and funding pledges to making medical oxygen.

“What we need is better planning with the recognition that government’s capacity is limited and therefore requires private participation,” said economist Madhura Swaminathan of the Indian Statistical Institute in Bengaluru.