Ministers have pledged vital oxygen equipment for desperate Indians today as the country's Covid death toll passes 200,000 and it reels from a devastating surge in infections.
The UK will send three oxygen production machines from Northern Ireland which each produce 500 litres of oxygen a minute, enough for 50 people to use at a time.
India today recorded its deadliest day of the pandemic yet, as shortages of oxygen, medical supplies and hospital staff left its population vulnerable to a record number of new infections.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the Covid wave in India was "harrowing" and the Government would continue to provide support.
The UK's first aid shipment of 200 pieces of medical equipment of ventilators and oxygen equipment landed in Delhi this week.
Indian officials are hoping for a flood of supplies, including vaccines to speed the rollout to its 1.2bn population.
But Mr Hancock said the UK currently had no "surplus" vaccine supplies that it could send to India as the jabs programme reaches those in their early 40s.
Victims' bodies in India are being burned in mass cremations, and families resort to queuing for short supplies of oxygen in heartbreaking bids to save their loved ones.
Ambulances lined for hours in the capital, New Delhi, to take victims to makeshift crematorium facilities in parks and parking lots, where bodies burned on rows of funeral pyres.
Shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy said: "This is not a far-away crisis. For many of us this is something very, very close, very, very personal."
