1 / 12United States President Donald Trump late on Friday said that his country would donate ventilators to India in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. 2 / 12Trump also expressed his support for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that India and US would overcome the health crisis together.3 / 12“I am proud to announce that the United States will donate ventilators to our friends in India,” Trump wrote on Twitter. 4 / 12“We stand with India and Narendra Modi during this pandemic. We’re also cooperating on vaccine development. Together we will beat the invisible enemy!”5 / 12During a press briefing earlier in the day, Trump said that US and India were coordinating for research and a vaccine for Covid-19.6 / 12 “I just got back a short while ago from India recently and we are working very much with India and we have a tremendous Indian population in the US and many of the people that you are talking about are working on the vaccine too,” Trump said in response to a question, according to PTI.7 / 12Trump’s praise for India came over a month after he had hinted at retaliation if the country failed to provide US the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine, one of the experimental and unproven drugs used to fight the virus.8 / 12Just hours after Trump’s warning, the Centre revoked its earlier ban on the export of the crucial drug and agreed to supply it to the US.9 / 12India has reported 81,970 cases of the coronavirus and 2,649 deaths so far, according to data from the Union health ministry.10 / 12The data from state health departments, however, showed that India has surpassed China’s coronavirus tally with over 85,000 cases.11 / 12The US, meanwhile, has recorded over 14 lakh cases and 87,530 deaths, making it the worst-hit country in the world.12 / 12Trump who visited India recently has always shared cordial relations with Modi describing the Prime Minister as his very good friend.