Using wastewater monitoring to fight COVID-19 Here is the other coronavirus-related news from around the world. Asia Pacific India late Saturday, as plans were made to deliver more supplies to help the South Asian country cope with the catastrophic new wave of the COVID pandemic. The aircraft, which took off from Cologne, brought a team of 13 medical experts who will help set up and operate mobile oxygen production units. A shortage of oxygen in hospitals has worsened the rising death toll, which has now reached 215,542. On Sunday, India record an additional 3,689 deaths. Taiwan too has shipped medical supplies to India, including 150 oxygen concentrators and 500 oxygen cylinders, joining more than a dozen other states that have offered help.