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The United States is sending provides value greater than $100 million to India to assist it combat a surge of COVID19 instances, the White House mentioned in an announcement on Wednesday.
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The United States is sending provides value greater than $100 million to India to assist it combat a surge of COVID-19 instances, the White House mentioned in an announcement on Wednesday.
The provides, which can start arriving on Thursday and proceed into subsequent week, embody 1,000 oxygen cylinders, 15 million N95 masks and 1 million speedy diagnostic checks, the assertion mentioned.
The United States additionally has redirected its personal order of AstraZeneca manufacturing provides to India, which can permit it to make over 20 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, in accordance to the White House.
Just as India despatched help to the United States when our hospitals had been strained early in the pandemic, the United States is decided to assist India in its time of want,” the White House said in a fact sheet outlining the aid.
India’s death toll from the coronavirus pandemic surged past 200,000 on Wednesday, worsened by shortages of hospital beds and medical oxygen. The last 24 hours brought 360,960 new cases for the world’s largest single-day total, taking India’s tally of infections to nearly 18 million.
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