The central government has asked automobile manufacturers to use their facilities to produce ventilators to boost the country's capacity of such machines in view of rising COVID-19 cases.
The Health ministry said that the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will begin manufacturing 20,000 N-95 masks per day within the next week.
The ministry informed that over 14,000 existing ventilators are earmarked for COVID-19 patients in various hospitals in the country while there are 1.19 million N-95 masks in stock.
Additional 500,000 masks were distributed during the last two days and 140,000 were distributed on Monday.
"Automobile manufacturers have been asked to manufacture ventilators and they are working towards this end," the health ministry said in a tweet.
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