United States president, Donald Trump, has promised to send ventilators to Nigeria to help in the fight against the Coronavirus disease.
Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, announced during a media briefing of the Presidential Task Force on Coronavirus on Tuesday, April 28, 2020, that President Trump made the promise during a phone call with President Muhammadu Buhari earlier on Tuesday.
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“President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday had a phone conversation with President Donald Trump, at the request of the American President. The conversation centered on Nigeria’s response to the Coronavirus 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.
“For his part, President Trump assured that the United States stands in solidarity with Nigeria in this difficult time and promised to send ventilators to support the country in its fight against the pandemic.” Lai Mohammed said.
In Another Story Coronavirus: China Warns U.S. To Stop Politicising Pandemic
The United States should stop politicizing the coronavirus pandemic and focus on defeating the coronavirus and boosting the economy, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, said on Friday.
Lijian made the remarks at a daily news briefing after U.S. Defence Secretary, Mark Esper, reportedly said that it is “difficult to believe information from the Communist Party of China’’ and that “they have been misleading the United States and opaque’’.
Lijian said China had taken the most comprehensive, rigorous and thorough prevention and control measures in an open, transparent and responsible way since the coronavirus outbreak and had actively promoted international cooperation on controlling the coronavirus.
“If the U.S. was misled or lacked sufficient information in the early days, how could the U.S. Centre for Disease Control and Prevention issue precautions against the novel coronavirus related disease on Jan. 15?
“Why did the U.S. announce a decision on Jan. 25 to close its consulate in Wuhan and withdraw all its staff?
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