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The first US plane carrying shipments of Covid-19 aid to India landed in Delhi this morning.

India Covid-19 ICU chief: "What we are seeing is nothing short of an apocalypse" From CNN's Adrienne Vogt An intensive care unit chief in India said the devastating coronavirus wave in the country is “nothing short of an apocalypse.”  “We've had patients being rushed in, almost wards getting filled up overnight, 90 patients in less than 12 hours. The problem with this virus is the second wave is extremely contagious, extremely aggressive, and it is affecting the younger population in a significantly different way that we had not expected,” said Dr. Farah Husain, head of the ...

“Responsibility is ours,” spokesman of India’s ruling party says about the Covid-19 crisis From CNN’s Emmet Lyons and Henry Hullah The responsibility for the devastating second wave that is sweeping India belongs “first and foremost” to the government but the situation could not have been foreseen, according to Narendra Taneja, a spokesperson for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).  “We are in power, we are the government in India so of course responsibility is first and foremost ours, good or bad, whatever it is," Taneja told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. "It is our ...

Japan reports highest number of Covid-19 cases since late January From Chie Kobayashi in Tokyo and Eric Cheung in Hong Kong Pedestrians are seen at Shibuya crossing in Tokyo, Japan, on April 29. Yuichi Yamazaki/Getty Images Japan reported 5,795 Covid-19 cases Thursday, the highest number of cases since late January, according to the country's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. Osaka, the second largest city in Japan, reported 44 new deaths, the most deaths in a single day for the area since the beginning of the pandemic, local authorities said. Up to 98.2% of hospital beds for patients wi...

Italy will ban entry to travelers from Bangladesh  From CNN's Livia Borghese Italy will ban travelers from Bangladesh, the Italian health ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. The statement said the travel ban would prevent anyone that has stayed in or transitioned through Bangladesh in the past 14 days from entering Italy. The statement added that due to the worsening coronavirus situation in Bangladesh and India, stricter quarantine measures for people who live in Italy will be imposed, however it did not clarify details. Some more context: India has now become home to the world’s w...