Coronavirus: ventilator shortage ‘due to decade of NHS underfunding’

Health Secretary suggests UK manufacturers switch to making respirators to combat shortfall

Matt Hancock
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Health Secretary Matt Hancock visit a hospital in Worksop, Nottinghamshire
(Image credit: Christopher Furlong/AFP/Getty Images)

An emergency manufacture of respirators will be necessary to treat those who become acutely ill with coronavirus, the government has admitted.

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