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The UK can't all the fans it needs, by The Time , the coronavirus cases in the country to achieve its peak, the engineering company warned.

health officials expect that the UK experience the highest number of infections in around Two Weeks time.

the UK has just over 8,000 fans, significantly less than the 30,000 the government estimates are needed to cope with the consequences of The Peak .

the manufacturer said The Bbc , they can't produce enough to meet that deadline.

But, a company involved, to produce the plans, the life-saving machines, said that from the beginning of may, the country would be "in a much better position."

It is the widespread uncertainty within the government and industry about how many fans, it is possible to produce the company that you can make, and by when.

Dyson has an order for 10,000 units, pending regulatory approval. The company, under the direction of British inventor Sir James Dyson , has developed its design from the ground up in collaboration with the Cambridge-based medical company, The technology partnership.

Dyson said it would hope fully approved the design within a matter of days, which would allow him to start production within Two Weeks . However, it has since been doubt cast on whether the deadlines for the approval was realistic.

Another consortium, including engineering companies, Airbus, GKN, Rolls Royce, Megitt and other work on the ramp-up of production of a simplified design based on the existing technology from the Medical Ventilator specialist companies Penlon and Smiths.

As well as the consortium for assistance in the procurement of parts, thought it was two new production facilities will be opened - One in The North and in the southwest.

But, with so many different companies in a consortium involved, there is also the uncertainty about it is how quickly the approval for the design and accelerated production to happen.

'Not a race'

Separately, the consortium members plan to ramp up supplies to the company, Penlon and the forge, the already fans.

A company, told The Bbc : "We Are racing each other, We Are in a race against The Virus . "

seems to have The Urgency of The Situation , exposed cracks in the cooperation between the government departments. The Bbc understands that in One instance, The Department of health was aware of the fact that 10,000 fans have been ordered from Dyson, in spite of the placing of orders in a Cabinet Office headed letter.

There was also confusion about why the UK is not an EU-wide procurement, for tens of thousands of new fans.

Several Whitehall sources say that The Invitation to participate languished in the in-tray more junior Health Department officials until it was Too Late . Meanwhile, government sources claimed that the program would not have made a significant difference in the available devices, because the UK would have been One of the 28 countries vying for the new units.

" the Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove said Britain was in the position, all of The Units that needed it, even. But the manufacturer said to do, the country may not be able to, so in The Time frame required to face the top of the UK infections.

One thing is clear: there is no such thing as ordering too many, from where, by whom.

the UK has the same goal of 30,000 in the U.S. state of New York has One -third of the population of the UK.

The Members of the consortium, said there was also demand from countries such as Kenya and South Africa . So, in the unlikely event, the government looks on with a UK-surplus, there is no shortage of foreign buyers.

The Bbc has the government opinion

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Source of news: bbc.com