US President, Donald Trump has said that Nigeria will do ‘anything’ to get ventilators as it battles the coronavirus pandemic.
Donald Trump said this during a press briefing where he confirmed that the United States government had plans to send ventilators from Florida to other countries.
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The Nigerian government had announced on Tuesday that President Buhari had a phone conversation with Donald Trump where the latter promised to send ventilators to Nigeria.
“The conversation centred on Nigeria’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. President Buhari used the opportunity to brief the American President on the steps that Nigeria is taking to contain the spread of the disease.”
“On his part, President Trump assured that the United States stand in solidarity with Nigeria in this difficult time and promised to send ventilators to support the country in its fight against the pandemic. President Trump also extends his best regards to the people of Nigeria.”
The Nigerian government had said in a statement.
Speaking during the press briefing in Wednesday in company of Ron DeSantis, Governor of Florida, Trump said Florida was formerly in dire need of ventilators but now had excess to send to other countries.
“Ron said one thing that was interesting. He talked about ventilators and that ventilators were going to be a disaster in Florida and not enough and we sent them thousands of ventilators. But in the meantime, you have thousands of ventilators that aren’t used and we’ll be able to send them probably to other countries,” he said.
“You’ll build up your stockpile because these other countries, Italy, France, Spain; we’re sending to Spain. I spoke today to Nigeria. They’ll do anything for ventilators. We’re going to send at least 200 ventilators to Nigeria; probably more than that.”
Nigeria currently has 1532 confirmed Coronavirus cases across 33 states.