US President Donald Trump says Nigeria desperately needs
ventilators to boost its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
At the presidential task force on COVID-19 briefing on
Tuesday, Lai Mohammed, minister of information, had announced that President
Muhammadu Buhari spoke with Trump on the peculiarities of how the COVID-19
pandemic was being addressed in 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,” the minister had said.
“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.”
Speaking at a press briefing aired on Fox News, Trump
confirmed that there were plans by the US to send ventilators from Florida to
other countries amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, was at the briefing.
According to Trump, Florida had been in need of ventilators and thousands were
sent to them and now, they had a surplus not being used which could be sent 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.”
As of April 28, 2020, Nigeria had recorded a total of 1,532
confirmed cases of COVID-19 in 33 states and the federal capital territory.
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