US President Donald Trump has said that Pakistan has asked him to send ventilators for the victims of the coronavirus and he has agreed to do so.

At a White House briefing on US efforts to combat the disease, President Trump said that he spoke to a number of world leaders “who desperately need ventilators” and assured them that Washington would help them meet their needs.

“Spoke with Pakistan; they would like to have some ventilators. We’re going to get them some ventilators,” he said, adding that all the leaders he spoke to “said to me one thing: It was incredible that you solved the ventilator problem because that was a big problem”.

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