10 things you need to know today: April 30, 2021

India's coronavirus infections hit another global record, U.S. economic growth picks up, and more

A queue for coronavirus drugs in India
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1. India's coronavirus outbreak hits another global record

India's health ministry on Thursday reported 379,257 new coronavirus infections, the latest in a series of global single-day records set during the country's devastating second wave of COVID-19. India also confirmed another 3,645 COVID-19 deaths, the most it has seen in a single day since the pandemic started. Hospitals have filled up in Delhi and started turning away patients and their family members. Gravediggers and crematorium employees are working around the clock to keep up as the toll rises. "I'm not scared of COVID," Mumbai gravedigger Sayyed Munir Kamruddin, 52, said. "I've worked with courage." The Biden administration late Wednesday outlined a plan to send India $100 million in aid, including oxygen cylinders, N95 masks, raw materials India needs to produce more than 20 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, and more.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.