NEW DELHI : The US assistance to India to battle its raging Covid-19 pandemic includes supplies to manufacture over 20 million doses of vaccines, a White House statement on Thursday said.The first tranche of the assistance, which is expected to arrive on Friday also includes a first batch of “a planned 20,000 treatment courses of the antiviral drug remdesivir to help treat hospitalized patients", the statement said.This comes as India on Thursday reported more than 370,000 news cases—a new high—and more than 3,600 deaths, which is also a record high.Beleaguered India, which is facing a raging second wave of the pandemic, had been asking the US to speed up supplies of vaccine manufacturing ingredients that were in short supply.