US to Send Russia 200 Ventilators as Russian CCP Virus Cases Near 300,000

The United States said on Tuesday it would this week start delivering 200 medical ventilators to Russia.

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are set to meet in Helsinki on July 16, 2018. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times and Thomas Kronsteiner/Getty Images

MOSCOW—The United States said on Tuesday it would this week start delivering 200 medical ventilators to Russia, which has the world’s second-highest number of confirmed CCP virus cases (not counting China), commonly known as the novel coronavirus.

Russia reported 9,263 new infections on Tuesday, pushing its nationwide total to 299,941, and 115 more deaths, taking the total death toll to 2,837.