US aid arrives in India as Covid cases surge to new world record By AFP Share New Delhi - The first US emergency aid to India arrived on Friday as several states said they would be unable to begin vaccinating all over-18s from this weekend as planned. The supplies arrived as India recorded another 385 000 new cases in the past 24 hours - a new global record - and almost 3 500 deaths, according to official data that many experts suspect falls short of the true toll. A US Super Galaxy military transporter carrying more than 400 oxygen cylinders, other hospital equipment and nearly one million rapid coronavirus tests landed at New Delhi's international airport early Friday.