On Thursday, U.S. aid flights will begin arriving in India and will continue into next week. The flights to India first announced over the weekend is to one of the countries hardest hit by COVID-19.
Funeral pyres have lit up the night sky in the worst affected cities, and the country has set a new global record of 350,000 new infections a day, which experts say could be a vast undercount, reported the NY Times.
The aid will contain various supplies worth over $100 million, including oxygen, virus tests, and vaccine materials, the White House said, according to the Hill.
In response to a shortage of oxygen, 1,700 concentrators that obtain oxygen out of the air, along with cylinders used to store the oxygen, are being shipped in the country.
The U.S. aid also includes supplies necessary for India to manufacture over 20 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, as well as 15 million N95 masks, 1 million rapid tests, the White House said.
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