Photos: Aid pours in for COVID-19-hit India

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The international community is rushing medical assistance to India as the country fights a massive virus surge that is crippling the country’s healthcare system. In a gesture of solidarity, the United States, European Union, Russia, France, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have dispatched medical equipment, oxygen tanks and cylinders. Several other countries have also pledged assistance in the last two days. Above, Indian Air Force C-17 airlifted six cryogenic oxygen containers from Dubai to Panagarh Air Base. Image Credit: ANI

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UAE sends a consignment of 157 ventilators, 480 BiPAPs, and other medical supplies to India. UAE was one of the first to rush to India's aid. Image Credit: ANI

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UAE sent a consignment of 157 ventilators, 480 BiPAPs, and other medical supplies to India. Image Credit: ANI

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318 Oxygen Concentrators arrive at Delhi airport from the United States. The US on Monday said it would supply the raw material required to ramp up vaccine manufacturing. Image Credit: ANI

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Two Russian flights with oxygen concentrators, lung ventilation equipment, bedside monitors, medicines, including Coronavir and other essential pharmaceutical items, landed in India to help the country fight against the COVID-19 surge. Image Credit: AP

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A shipment from Britain, including 100 ventilators and 95 oxygen concentrators, arrived in New Delhi. Image Credit: ANI

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A shipment of vital medical supplies from the United Kingdom, including 100 ventilators and 95 oxygen concentrators, arrived in India. Crucial medical supplies began to reach India on Tuesday as hospitals starved of life-saving oxygen and beds turned away coronavirus patients. A surge in infections pushed the death toll towards 200,000. Image Credit: ANI

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An Indian Air Force C-17 aircraft was in Dubai on Tuesday to airlift cryogenic oxygen containers to aid oxygen supply to hospitals. Image Credit: ANI

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Packages of medical aid for India to help the country tackle the outbreak of the coronavirus disease before being loaded onto a plane at Zhukovsky Airport in Moscow Region, Russia. Image Credit: via REUTERS

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Saudi Arabia sent 80 metric tons of oxygen to India amid a surging number of coronavirus cases. Saudi Arabia sent the supplies of oxygen in cooperation with the Indian company Adani Group and British company Linde. Image Credit: Twitter@IndianEmbRiyadh

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A medical worker prepares a dose of the Covishield, AstraZeneca-Oxford's COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine, at a vaccination centre in Srinagar. The United States will consider sending surplus AstraZeneca vaccines to India. Western nations, including Britain and Germany, have pledged help as India's coronavirus crisis grows, driving increases in global case numbers in recent days even as the number of vaccines administered globally surpasses the one billion mark. Image Credit: AFP

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The Singapore Government has sent a consignment of oxygen cylinders to support India’s COVID-19 pandemic response, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday. Image Credit: ANI

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Indian Air Force airlifts Oxygen from Thailand, in Bangkok. Image Credit: ANI

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Spice Jet air cargo SpiceXpress airlifted 1000 oxygen concentrators from Hong Kong to Delhi on Wednesday. Image Credit: ANI

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Mauritius provides 200 oxygen concentrators as medical assistance to India to help it fight the pandemic. Image Credit: ANI

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Volunteers from a Gurdwara prepare oxygen cylinders for patients in New Delhi. Image Credit: AP

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