Ireland to send 700 ventilators to India to help fight deadly new wave of Covid-19

Health workers attend to a patient at the Jumbo Covid-19 hospital in Mumbai, India. New infections are rising faster in India than any other place in the world, stunning authorities and capsizing its fragile health system. Picture: AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool

Ireland will send 700 ventilators and other equipment to India to help in its fight against a deadly new wave of Covid-19.

Health Minister Stephen Donnelly, Housing Minister Darragh O'Brien and Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney made the announcement this afternoon.