 "A medical staffer holds the hand of a patient, in the ICU of the Bassini Hospital, in Cinisello Balsamo, near Milan, Italy, Tuesday, April 14, 2020 | Photo: AP/PTI")
Latin American countries, including Brazil, Argentina and Colombia, have scrapped import duties on some respiratory equipment from India as a temporary trade-relief measure to fight Covid-19, engineering exports body EEPC India said.
A group, which includes Colombia, Paraguay and Ecuador, has also scrapped import duties on medical equipment such as gas masks and oxygen therapy devices, EEPC said on Friday, Reuters reported.
The Brazilian government published a resolution eliminating import taxes on 141 medical products and hospital equipment, including ultrasound machines, tracheostomy kits and laryngeal airway masks and ventilators made in any country.
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