New York: China donated 1,000 ventilators to New York, the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic in the US, as the authorities grappled with an insufficient supply of the life saving equipment amid a surge in the number of coronavirus cases that has crossed 1,00,000 in the state.
“China is remarkably the repository for all of these orders. Ventilators, PPE, it all goes back to China. Long term, we have to figure out why we wound up in this situation where we don’t have the manufacturing capacity in this country. I understand supply chain issues, I understand the cost of manufacturing, but there’s a public health reason, as we’ve all learned the hard way, why we need the capacity in this country to do this,” Cuomo said.
In order to meet this demand for ventilators, “New York has been shopping in China,” he said.
“The Chinese government is going to facilitate a donation of 1,000 ventilators” that came in to John F Kennedy Airport.
“That’s going to be very helpful… this is a big deal. It’s going to make a significant difference for us,” he said. (PTI)
