In times of war, factories were converted from making cars to making tanks and ships. In the time of the coronavirus, Vietnam has retooled a smartphone factory to churn out life-critical ventilators. For many nations fighting COVID-19, ventilators have highlighted a struggle of life and death and of medical shortages. For Vietnam, which reported no local COVID-19 cases in three months, the ventilators are an unlikely story of a little engine that could — that is, could produce machines for a world in a pandemic. A conglomerate, Vingroup, founded by Vietnam’s richest man, had never dabbled in medical devices …read more
Source:: Voice of America
