Coronavirus: PM urges industry to help make NHS ventilators
Source: BBC
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is due to speak to engineering firms on Monday about whether they can shift production lines to building NHS ventilators.
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"Preparing for the spread of the coronavirus outbreak is a national priority and we're calling on the manufacturing industry and all those with relevant expertise who might be able to help to come together to help the country tackle this national crisis," Downing Street said.
"We need to step up production of vital equipment such as ventilators so that we can all help the most vulnerable, and we need businesses to come to us and help in this national effort."
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"We've got high quality engineering in this country," Mr Hancock said. "We want anybody who has the manufacturing capability to turn to the manufacture of ventilators, to do that."
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"We are saying, if you produce a ventilator, we will buy it. No number is too high."
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This is what a national government effort looks like. One clear message. Government working for the people's welfare.
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We have no such mechanism or war like effort. Every move they make is reactionary, always six steps behind.
