DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's health service is finalising contracts to add 100 ventilators per week to meet the demand from coronavirus cases that the country's prime minister has forecast could reach 15,000 by the end of the month.
Many countries are trying to buy ventilators, used to keep people with coronavirus alive if they struggle to breathe, with neighbouring Britain asking non-medical manufacturers to help produce them.
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