General Motors has started manufacturing artificial respirators, which will hand over 600 devices to the US government this April.


According to ArabiaNet, the government had contracted the company to manufacture 30,000 artificial respirators by the end of August, at a value of $ 490 million.


The Ministry of Health and Human Services asked 9 American companies to produce 137,000 respirators by the end of the year, according to the National Defense Production Act, which allows the president to compel companies to produce what the country needs in case of need.