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| The first of several emergency relief shipments from the U.S. to India was scheduled to arrive Thursday in the nation's capital. |
| The shipment to New Delhi includes oxygen cylinders and regulators, rapid diagnostic tests, and N95 masks, U.S. Aid for International Development said. |
| The coronavirus pandemic is ravaging India, where some cities are on lockdown, hospitals are running out of beds and crematoriums are burning bodies through the night. |
| India reported nearly 380,000 cases and more than 3,600 deaths on Wednesday alone, Johns Hopkins University data shows. The official death toll has doubled in just the last 10 days, and cases have doubled in the last 15 – but experts warn those figures are undercounts. |
 | | SOURCE Johns Hopkins University data | | USA TODAY | |
| It's Wednesday, and this is the Coronavirus Watch from the USA TODAY Network. Here's more news you need to know: |
| • | About 92% of people who got a first shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine made it back for their second dose, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. | | • | Moderna said it will make as many as 1 billion doses of its shots this year and up to 3 billion next year. Most of next year's doses will go toward vaccinating young children and for booster shots, which are likely to be needed as immunity wanes with time and in the face of new variants. | | • | New York City will fully reopen July 1, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday. "We are ready for stores to open, for businesses to open, offices, theaters, full strength," de Blasio said. Also Thursday, Chicago peeled back capacity restrictions and announced the reopening of the city's iconic Navy Pier, lakefront beaches, and the United Center indoor arena. | | • | Most vaccines administered have been in wealthy countries. Just 0.3% of the 1 billion vaccines administered so far were given to people in low-income countries , the head of the World Health Organization said Thursday. Meanwhile, Britain says it is buying 60 million more doses of the Pfizer vaccine to give booster shots in the fall. And Congo wants to return 1.3 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses, citing vaccine hesitancy in the central African nation of 87 million people. | |
| Today's numbers: The U.S. has reported more than 32.2 million COVID-19 cases and 574,000 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Worldwide, there have been more than 149.7 million cases and more than 3.1 million deaths. About 43% of people in the U.S. have received at least one vaccine shot, and nearly 30% are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC. |
| See the numbers in your area here. Check out where cases are rising here. See how many vaccines your state has received here. And here, compare vaccinations rates worldwide and see which countries are using which vaccines. |
| – Grace Hauck, USA TODAY breaking news reporter, @grace_hauck |
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