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Hastily-made new coronavirus ventilators 'could be ready for the NHS next week’

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The first ventilators made to a new prototype designed to help the fight against Covid-18  could begin appearing in hospitals next week, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said.L ast week Boris Johnson led an impassioned plea for manufacturers to turn their skills to producing ventilators to help increase the countries capacity of the life-saving tool.

Britain is believed to have had around 7,000 ventilators, which are used to support people who develop pneumonia while fighting the virus, before the crisis started.

But NHS chiefs warned that as the virus takes hold many more would be needed. But this morning Mr Hancock said that "more than half a dozen companies have already made one in prototype, to check with us that we are happy with

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