Good morning from the Financial Times.

Today is Monday, March 30th,

and this is your FT news briefing.

Last week, Donald Trump said he wanted to reopen the economy

from the country's coronavirus shut down by April 12. Now he's

extending social distancing guidelines in the US to the end of next month. The

better you do the faster this whole nightmare will end.

Meanwhile in the UK officials have said normal life might not return for as many as six months.

These statements came after grim projections of the death toll from the outbreak.

And as oil trading reopened a few hours later, U.S. crude fell below the $20 a barrel mark,

with traders betting production will need to shut to cope with the

collapse and demand caused by coronavirus. In today's show we'll look at what

the manufacturing industry is doing to respond to a global ventilator shortage, business's biggest

questions about the US stimulus package, and a sliver of the Italian economy left out

of coronavirus financial assistance. I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day.

The machines that help severely ill coronavirus patients breathe are in desperately short supply.

New York State alone says it needs about 30,000 ventilators,

and one of the world's largest makers of these machines,

Germany's Dregar work, said the demand is going to vastly

outweigh the supply.

That's what the company expecting to produce four times the number of units it normally does.

Some of the biggest names in manufacturing are making moves to start producing

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