NHS's race for ventilators as Government vows 'to stop at nothing' in bug crisis

Under-funding over a decade means NHS is lacking equipment and intensive care doctors - the government now wants factories to switch up production line in bid to battle disease

British manufacturers are being urged to start making ventilators as the Government battles to tackle the coronavirus outbreak.

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