During this quarantine, Rihanna has stepped up to help her home country of Barbados. The Caribbean island has logged a handful of coronavirus cases, but considering its population, authorities want to control the spread of COVID-19 as quickly as possible. It’s been reported that over the last few weeks, Rihanna has made generous donations to Barbados and New York, helping to supply healthcare workers with ventilators to treat patients. Now, Rihanna’s father Ronald Fenty has told The Sun that his famous daughter sent a ventilator to his home after he contracted COVID-19.

“My daughter Robyn was checking in on me every day,” Ronald told the publication. “I thought I was going to die to be honest. I have to say, I love you so much, Robyn.” He also stated that Rihanna went above and beyond to make sure he recovered. “She did so much for me. I appreciate everything she has done.”

Ronald Fenty also shared what it was like while he was ill. “I got a fever up inside of my nose. I had a fever across my lips. It was just a lot of fever,” he added. “I feared the worst. I thought I was going to die, honestly.” Ronald eventually spent 14 days under strict supervision at the Paragon Isolation Center. “I want everybody to stay home. This is a serious situation,” he said. “More serious than people realize. Please stay home.”

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President Donald Trump was told by New York Governor, Andrew Cuomo, that the state needed 30,000 ventilators, but Trump (literally) isn’t buying it. The U.S. president spoke to Fox News’s Sean Hannity over the phone on Thursday, where he addressed the shortages of medical supplies in New York amid the coronavirus pandemic. Trump was not shy about voicing his doubts on New York’s demand for equipment. “I have a feeling that a lot of the numbers that are being said in some areas are just bigger than they’re going to be,” he told Hannity. “I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators.”

“You know you go into major hospitals sometimes they’ll have two ventilators,” he continued. “Now, all of a sudden, they’re saying, ‘Can we order 30,000 ventilators?’” The statement comes after Governor Andrew Cuomo had requested exactly 30,000 ventilators for New York State—which has been hit hardest by the pandemic—and subsequently blasted the government for only sending a mere fraction of that number. “You want a pat on the back for sending 400 ventilators?” Cuomo said in a press conference, enraged. He added that tens of thousands of New Yorkers are “going to die” as a result of Trump’s neglect, unless he really steps up and provides the supplies that the state needs. Trump told Hannity, however, that purchasing a ventilator is like buying a car—a “very expensive” and “very intricate” process. “And you know they’d say, like Governor Cuomo and others, they’d say ‘We want 30,000 of them’” Trump recounted. “Thirty thousand? Think of this, you know you go to hospitals that have one in a hospital and now all of a sudden everyone’s asking for these vast numbers.”

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“Look, it’s a very bad situation,” Trump concluded. “We haven’t seen anything like it, but the end result is we gotta get back to work, and I think we can start by opening up some parts of the country.” Trump is already hoping that some Americans will be returning to work as early as Easter (April 12th), a decision that has been widely criticized as premature and irresponsible. Watch the full conversation with Trump on Fox News below:

A select few celebrities are doing what they can to help through this COVID-19 pandemic. Rihanna has added her name to the list of charitable famous figures as it's being announced that she plans to donate BB$1.4 million (approximately $700K) worth of ventilators to her home country of Barbados to help combat against coronavirus.

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According to Kevz Politics, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley recently made the announcement about the singer's generous offer. ET Canada also noted that Rihanna is known for giving back to her native country, including founding "the Clara Lionel Foundation in honour of her grandparents, which supports the Clara Braithwaite Center for Oncology and Nuclear Medicine at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Barbados."

Caribbean National Weekly also shared today (March 20) that two news cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed. That makes six total cases in Barbados, as the others were revealed earlier this week. The report about Rihanna comes on the same day that it was shared that Kanye West donated an undisclosed sum to a charity in his hometown of Chicago that will feed the elderly in the Windy City's South Side. Additionally, the rapper has given an unspecified amount to the Dream Center, a non-profit in Los Angeles.