Postal workers and food, ecommerce, other delivery executives worked through the lockdowns even at the peak of the pandemic to deliver medicines, food and other essentials to people's doorstep
Teachers in rural and urban areas had to come up with innovative methods to ensure students did not miss out on an education during the pandemic
Dr Santosh Kumar put his decades-long experience of tackling health crises in other countries to use in fighting Covid-19 back home
Women like Gayatri Devi and Bhageerathy, along with their self-help groups, helped combat Covid-19 on various fronts across the country