Russia will accept ventilators from United States if needed: Kremlin

A medical specialist pushes a stretcher in a hospital for patients infected with the coronavirus disease on the outskirts of MoscowMOSCOW: Russia would accept a"kind offer" by US President Donald Trump to ship ventilators to the country if it felt it needed them to treat people sick with the novel coronavirus, the Kremlin said on Thursday .

Russia, which has so far recorded 27,938 cases and 232 coronavirus-related deaths, shipped ventilators and protective gear this month to the United States after a phone call between Trump and President Vladimir Putin.Trump told Putin in a recent phone call that the United States could reciprocate as it begins to produce more ventilators, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call on Thursday.

The Kremlin initially described Russia's shipment of ventilators and medical equipment to the United States as humanitarian aid, while the Russian Foreign Ministry said Moscow had paid for half of it.Those assertions were later countered by a Trump administration official who said that Washington had picked up the whole tab.

Ventilators are in high demand globally as governments rush to purchase them in large quantities to tackle the coronavirus crisis, and manufacturers say they cannot immediately supply everyone.

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