SEOUL: South Korea said it will send medical equipment to the United States to fight Covid-19 if it has any spare after an urgent request from US President Donald Trump in which he promised to help Korean firms gain US government approval.
The news, which sent shares in South Korean manufacturers of test kits for the virus rocketing higher, highlights the diverging paths the two countries have taken since both discovered their first Covid-19 cases on the same day.
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