India, March 31 -- Ford Motor Co. and GE Healthcare announced a plan to produce 50,000 ventilators in Michigan within the next 100 days, in its efforts to support the fight against coronavirus or Covid-19. The companies would use the FDA-cleared ventilator design of Florida-based Airon Corp. Initial production will be up to 30,000 ventilators a month and thereafter as needed.

Airon currently produces only three Airon pNeuton Model A ventilators per day.

With the move, Ford would join rival General Motors in making the critically required ventilators as the confirmed cases of Covid-19 is escalating in the United States. Last Friday, President Donald Trump issued a memorandum, ordering GM to build required ventilators.

According to White...