Faced with huge shortages of ventilators, medically safe masks and hand sanitisers, the world is now coming together to make a plan to address this.
Companies which usually do not produce these kinds of products – but have the equipment, materials and the know-how – are stepping up and making a difference.
Some companies are making the actual items, while others are providing materials or parts to those that usually make them, helping to provide on a large scale and with speed; a number of corporations are even allowing free use of their intellectual property, enabling others to make their products for their own countries This is all unprecedented, of course, and there was some concern over what exactly is to be done with some of these