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ctor Akshay Kumar who had donated sum of Rs 1 crore to cricketer Gautam Gambhir's Delhi-based NGO for helping those affected by the COVID-19 cases during the pandemic. The 39-year-old cricketer Gautam Gambhir wrote with gratitude on Saturday evening "Every help in this gloom comes as a ray of hope. Thanks a lot Akshay Kumar for committing Rs 1 crore to Gautam Gambhir Foundation for food, meds and oxygen for the needy! God bless".

Meanwhile Akshay answered to the tweet, about looking forward to better times, "These are really tough times, Gautam Gambhir. Glad I could help. Wish we all get out of this crisis soon. Stay Safe." The country is fighting with its second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic along with lack of health infrastructure, a sudden rise in cases has triggered an Oxygen crisis in National Capital and also in some other states.

Earlier in April, Akshay Kumar contracted with Covid virus, he was admitted in Mumbai's hospital for his isolation.