The U.S. government is donating 1,000 ventilators to Brazil as part of a cooperative agreement to tackle public health challenges posed by the pandemic.

Brazil has seen a spike in coronavirus infections as Latin America has become the new epicenter of the pandemic. It now has more than 500,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases.

The White House said “the U.S. and Brazil will remain in close coordination in the shared fight against the coronavirus pandemic.”