(AFP): Mexican government has thanked United States President Donald Trump and called him a “friend” for supporting them to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.
According to an international news agency, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard praised the US for supplying desperately needed ventilators to Mexico in order to treat coronavirus patients.
The foreign minister said, “Today we want to heartily thank the United States government, in particular, President Trump because he made sure this happened.”
He further said, “And as the expression goes: it is when there is adversity that you come to know your friends and today … the airplane he promised is arriving.”
“Mexico is receiving 211 ventilators worth between $16,000 and $24,000 each at a time when “we’re at the peak” of the coronavirus pandemic, the minister informed.
On the other hand, Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that a planned meeting with Trump in upcoming months would be used to express solidarity with the US population and to thank them for the help we received in confronting the pandemic.
Mexico’s government expects to reach the peak of its coronavirus infections on Wednesday. It estimates the virus to cause 6,000 deaths in total.