World

US sending ventilators to countries in need: Donald Trump

US sending ventilators to countries in need: Donald Trump

TIL Desk/World/Washington/ US President Donald Trump while addressing the daily coronavirus briefing said his administration is sending ventilators to other countries in need as the US now has a “tremendous capacity” of its own.

“They”re asking if we can send them ventilators and I”m agreeing to do it,” Trump said of other countries. “The federal government has 10,000 ventilators and we could have a lot more if we wanted to do that but we”re helping Mexico, Honduras, Indonesia, France…We”re sending to Spain, we”re sending to Italy,” Trump said.

The president started by saying the country is beginning to work on re-opening and asks Americans to “maintain vigilance and hygiene, social distancing and voluntary use of face coverings”.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *