Corona … Indian authorities set new records and receive the first shipments of American medical aid

India has set a new record in the daily infection rate with the Coronavirus, while the forefront of US medical aid, whose value exceeds a hundred million dollars, has arrived at New Delhi Airport.

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The authorities counted more than 6 million injuries in the month of April alone, bringing the total number of injuries in India to more than 18 million.

The number of deaths has increased since the start of the pandemic to more than 208 thousand, while the number of so-called active cases has increased to more than 3 million cases out of 18 million infections recorded so far.

India thus jumped to the second place in the list of countries most affected by the Coronavirus after the United States due to the spread of what has become known as the modified Indian strain of the virus, in addition to non-compliance with the health rules and restrictions associated with the epidemic, as the World Health Organization said Thursday.

The arrival of the first shipments of US aid

While India continues to set records in injuries, the first shipments of US medical aid arrived Friday in India, which is witnessing a dramatic rise in the number of cases and deaths with Covid-19.

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The “Super Galaxy” military cargo plane landed with more than 400 oxygen cylinders, along with other hospital equipment and about a million coronavirus rapid screening equipment, at New Delhi International Airport, at a time when the Indian capital is facing an unprecedented health crisis.

Several countries made a pledge of practical international assistance.

The delivery of US medical equipment on board the plane that took off from the Trevis military base in California followed talks this week between US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

“The United States is receiving shipments worth more than one hundred million dollars in order to provide urgent aid in the coming days to our partners in India,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said Thursday. Advertising

US officials confirmed that the special flights that will transport equipment donated by individuals and companies will continue next week.

Expect an imminent reduction in the oxygen crisis

In the same context, a senior executive in the industry sector told Reuters that the acute medical oxygen supply crisis in India is expected to subside by mid-May, with production rising 25%, and the readiness of transport infrastructure to cope with the increase in demand caused by the large rise in cases of infection. Coronavirus.

Dozens of hospitals in cities such as New Delhi and Mumbai have suffered shortages of gas this month, prompting relatives of patients to search for oxygen cylinders, sometimes to no avail.

Muloy Banerjee of Linde, the country’s largest producer, said medical oxygen consumption in India has increased more than 8-fold from usual levels to around 7,200 tons per day this month.

“This is the cause of the crisis because no one was prepared for it, especially with the sharp increase” in casualties, Banerjee, who heads Linde’s gas activities in South Asia, told Reuters on Thursday.

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He added that Linde’s company and other suppliers would increase production to more than 9,000 tons per day in total by the middle of next month.

Britain will host a vaccination summit in 2022

On the other hand, Britain said on Friday that it would host a summit in 2022 to raise funds for vaccine research and development to support an international coalition seeking to accelerate the production of vaccines for diseases in the future.

Britain is using its presidency of the Group of Seven countries to highlight the need to prepare for future epidemics in light of the devastating consequences of the Corona virus crisis.

Britain said the summit with the Alliance for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations next year will support the coalition’s goal of reducing the time to develop new vaccines to 100 days in future epidemics.

“We look forward to working with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations to accelerate vaccine development and provide a global solution to ensure we are better prepared for future epidemics,” said Health Minister Matt Hancock.

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations was established in 2017 in partnership between public, private, charitable groups and civil society, and has played a prominent role in financing the early development of a batch of candidate vaccines against COVID-19.

The cases of Coronavirus infection recorded globally exceeded 150 million 337 thousand and 583 infections in the world since the virus was discovered in China in December 2019, including 6 million infections recorded within one week, in a number reinforced by the worsening spread of the virus in India, where 2.5 million people were infected With the virus in the past seven days.

The number of new daily infections has more than doubled since mid-February.