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VIDEO: 🇮🇳🇫🇷 Coronavirus aid sent by France arrived in #NewDelhi early on Sunday with 28 tons of medical equipment being delivered, according to the French embassy. The supplies include eight 'high capacity #oxygen generator plants' and 28 ventilators.
#UPDATE More emergency medical aid from foreign donors to alleviate a dire #oxygen shortage arrived in India on Sunday, as Covid-19 deaths in the South Asian nation rose by 3,689, the country's highest single-day rise yet in the pandemic u.afp.com/UWAW
#UPDATE The UK said Sunday it was sending an extra 1,000 #oxygen #ventilators to Covid-struck #India, as a group of doctors staged their own intervention by offering long-distance telemedicine from Britain u.afp.com/UWAF

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