<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background:white"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;mso-fareast-font-family:times new roman;color:#222222">A Russian military plane, Antonov-124, carrying medical supplies landed todayin New York, the epicenter of America's coronavirus outbreak, the UN said.<br />''<br />''Russia's defense ministry had earlier announcedthat the plane with medical masks and medical equipment on board, left for theUS overnight, without providing further details. The russian medical aid cameafter Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with US counterpart Donald Trumpon Monday.<br />''<br />''The US now has more than 206,000 confirmed coronaviruscases, by far the highest of any country, according to a Johns Hopkins tally,and over 4,500 deaths.<br />''<br />''Health officials in Russia have registered a sharpincrease in the number of infections, with 2,337 cases and 17 deaths confirmed,according to the latest figures.</span></p>
News On AIR | April 2, 2020 1:19 PM
Russian military plane carrying medical supplies lands in US