Ventilator Challenge UK to start production in Covid-19 fight

Consortium of British manufacturers called on to help produce 10,000 machines

A group of British manufacturers will begin producing medical ventilators for the NHS this week, under the twin codenames Project Oyster and Project Penguin, after the government ordered 10,000 of the devices to treat coronavirus patients.

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