More orders for NHS ventilators take number to 61,000

Cambridge company Sagentia says prototype can be produced at speed for Covid-19 patients

Two more companies have secured a total of 20,000 provisional orders for medical ventilators, taking the number of devices in the pipeline for the NHS to more than 61,000.

Sagentia, a subsidiary of the Cambridge-based Science Group, said it had designed and built a prototype ventilator, with government funding, that should be simpler to produce than some traditional models because it did not require components sourced externally.

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