Build ventilators to fight coronavirus, Britain asks automakers

Filed under:Plants/ManufacturingBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson will ask manufacturers on Monday to retool production to start making specialist health equipment including ventilators and will look at using hotels as emergency hospitals to cope with the coronavirus outbreak.Britain has taken a distinctly different approach to tackling coronavirus from European countries such as Italy, Spain and France which have imposed stringent lockdowns to try to slow the spread of the disease."The prime