Actor Sonu Sood has been in the forefront of numerous relief efforts since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, India is struggling with a second wave of the pandemic, with lakhs of Covid-19 cases and thousands of deaths every day. Hospitals in several states are facing a critical shortage of oxygen, beds, and medicines. The Dabbang actor, has now appealed to the government and the organisations who are helping in the Covid-19 crisis to think about the future of the children who have lost their parents in the pandemic. In a Instagram video, Sonu said, “I would like to request the government, the state government, central government or whichever institutes that are trying to help, that there should be a rule that whosoever has lost family members during Covid-19, the education of their kids, from school to college, be it in a government school or private school, should be free of cost.
”Continuing further, the actor said, many families have lost their sole breadwinners in the ongoing pandemic so the organisations who are helping the people in need must have a system in place for the same. “Need to come together for every individual who’s lost a loved one in this pandemic,” he shared in the caption. A number of celebs supported the actor's idea by reposting the video in their respective social media handles. Sonu recently tested positive for Covid-19 himself. After being in home quarantine, he recovered within a week. The actor had earlier informed his fans via a social media post that he has tested positive for COVID-19. Sonu recently, got a critically ill Covid-19 patient airlifted in an air ambulance from Nagpur to Hyderabad, to get a special treatment done. The 25-year-old girl, Bharti, who had lost almost 85-90% of her lungs due to COVID, with Sonu's help had been shifted to Wockhardt hospital, Nagpur for her treatment. The doctors had said that she needed a lung transplant or some special treatment which was only possible in Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad.