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US dispatches third set of Coronavirus aid to India
Updated On: 02 May, 2021 08:49 AM IST | Washington | Agencies
The US will be sending supplies worth more than $100 million to India, including 1,000 refillable oxygen cylinders, 15 million N95 masks, and one million rapid diagnostic tests

Employees seen working at the Biontech/Pfizer’s Comirnaty vaccine facility in Reinbek. Germany will be sending aid to India, too. Pic/AFP
The United States on Friday dispatched the third set of its several emergency COVID-19 relief shipments to India. Arriving in New Delhi with COVID-19 relief supplies from the Dulles International Airport in the national capital region, the carrier has onboard oxygen cylinders, test kits and other supplies and will land in New Delhi after a brief haul in Munich, according to USAID.
On Friday, just before the flight’s departure, the White House’s National Security Council coordinator for the Indo-Pacific, Kurt Campbell, Indian Ambassador to the United States Taranjit Singh Sandhu, Director for South Asia in White House’s National Security Council Sumona Guha and Jeremy Konyndyk at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) were present at the Dulles airport for a brief press interaction.


