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https://mg.co.za/coronavirus-essentials/2020-10-04-testing-sewage-the-covid-canary-in-our-wastewater/?amp
Testing sewage is an alternative to testing patients directly. It isn’t dependent on whether someone tests for Covid-19, so the results aren’t influenced by stigma or the accessibility of tests. Mutshembele says that “the tool doesn’t need an invasion” and can be done anonymously at a large scale. It also picks up asymptomatic cases and isn’t reliant on whether someone feels particularly sick.
“The sewage will give you a snapshot of what’s going on in a community,” says Van der Walt. Essentially, everyone defecates, so everyone is included in this testing method
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-10-virus-cases-stockholm-wastewater.amp
Researchers see increasing virus cases via Stockholm wastewater
The sewage water testing could help provide important insights into the spread and prevalence of the disease without the need for expensive widespread individual tests.
"This type of water analysis could definitely save resources for society, they give valuable information that can be combined with other parameters," Cetecioglu Gurol said.
For those that doubt the demand for the water tests.
New approaches are in the works that promise to pull back the curtains on the coronavirus, letting people know in real time how much the virus is circulating in their community and whether they themselves are infected. Some methods are working in the background. For example, at the University of Arizona, researchers are testing the sewage flowing out of numerous dorms to detect signs of infection among unsuspecting undergrads. In many cases, evidence of infection is secreted in stool even before someone develops symptoms.
Other efforts are going to take more work, both from the government and from individuals. Lateral flow, an approach that uses the same technology as a pregnancy test, is now reaching the market. Abbott Laboratories introduced Binax NOW, a disposable $5 test that takes just 15 minutes to get results. The company is making 50 million a month, and the U.S. government has cornered the market. But that’s not nearly enough.
Glebewhite - couldn't agree more, such a cost is easily lost in the price of a cruise, I for one would rather have a 'free' Covid test in the way you describe than the 'free' $100 on board spend so frequently offered - I can only assume that discussions are ongoing in this arena, as you say, imagine rocking up to any Chairman or CEO of a cruise line and demonstrating what we have here and saying "we can install and manage this for you if you like at all your cruise terminals around the globe, oh and while we are here what about our waste water detection which we can install on every ship in various places so we could let you know if anyone has Covid before they do, we could probably even tell you which cabin they are likely to be in....."
Even I reckon I could secure that deal in the present climate, and I am not sure they would even haggle on the price!
I am being a little facetious of course, but I am expecting some news on this before Xmas.
GLA
Goods and Services to Support the UK Covid-19 Testing Strategy
Source: OJEU
Published: Mon 05 Oct 2020
Provision of goods and services to support the UK Covid-19 Testing Strategy.
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Contract
award: UK Biocentre
£82M
Covid-19 Testing
Source: OJEU
Published: Mon 05 Oct 2020
Provision of goods and services to support the UK Covid-19 Testing Strategy.
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Contract
award: Glasgow University
£172
It's not Skin: Dep of Health October Contract Awards
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OptiGene GenieHT Machines and Covid-19 RT-LAMP Test Kits
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PCR Diagnostic Tests for the Detection of SARS-CoV-2
award: Primer Design £63.3M
Abbott Reagents
award: Abbott Laboratories £47.3M
Una Health Ltd
award: Una Health £3.3M
PCR Equipment and Consumables as Part of the UK Covid-19 Testing Strategy in Support of Pillar…
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If it was us, we wouldn’t be seeing a drop in share price, we would creep 1-5% daily me thinks. Word would get round and boom the contracts would secure us. Just hold and await GB news I guess.
We’ve only just started testing the prototypes with live virus in a level 3 lab so it won’t be us. Suggest a few go back and read the RNSs.
how many times did GB say "when we brush our teeth in the morning" like in this article. surely too much of a coincidence?
https://www.linkedin.com/company/waterrising-instiute/
Our global partners know the urgency for advancing research and development for AI real-time water surveillance and warning systems and the projects in Detroit will validate and allow for scaling to other parts of the US and the world.
They have other locations. Washington DC and Italy. Prove its worth in Detroit then implement the tech elsewhere.
https://wateractionhub.org/organizations/935/d/the-waterrising-institute/
Doesn't matter GB helped ramp the price up and people now sitting on actual/paper loses. Shouldn't say news is coming to help pump and dump the share when sales are forecasted sometime during Q1 2021.
Mentioned Dell as a partner at the presentation and still waiting for a rns confirming this.
The huge SP rise and drop with large other daily movements sometimes on small volumes confirms AIM pricing methodology is not fit for purpose. It must be incredibly frustrating for the CEO and Board (as well as LTHs) in trying to bring the companies together. Value of the company and therefore Mcap should not vary like this. Many LTHs who built holdings at the lows will be in profit and less concerned about the daily movement. With the potential for the combined company it requires patience and with more news in the pipeline, hopefully a sustained rise will be possible.
And we know GB has been talking with the cruise industry.
Exactly, nailed it. I go (well used to) on cruises all the time and the company could basically pass the cost on to the customer without really knowing anyway. Cruises are strangely loyal to the sea so anything to get the voyages going will be a winner and with over half a million customers worldwide on ships its a great market to tap into and thats one industry
The BT in my opinion this is not a silver bullet indeed I do not think there is or in the short term will be one.
But looking at how this system could be used, OK Cunard's Cruise Terminal Southampton, a few days before you depart a BT is posted to you, FOC from Cunard, it’s yours to keep, the day you depart you present yourself at the departure desk and hand over you BT chip which is then scanned, your clear, no covid on your breath, your on board, every day of your 14day cruise you take a test at a predetermined time on the ship, get the all clear, mix and mingle at you leisure in the certain knowledge everyone on board has been tested, oh and add in the safety feature of RAW testing for the covid virus in the waste water.
Now I am no salesman but this looks an easy sell to me, for a £30.00 BT unit and £4.00 a day that's the Cruise industry open for £86.00 per person for a 14 day holiday, and of course, perhaps people would be happy to pay a premium for the knowledge that your traveling companions are tested daily.
And as I have said countless times before Covid it not the reason I invested in the first place.
This share is at a ridiculous price. Snap it up if you can.
Agreed. We are about 4 weeks from knowing more and possible roll out date. That is nothing in terms of this pandemic. The whole point of Microtox is about having and keeping control once we have turned a corner and hopefully this will be at beginning of Q1.
charts shows it has bottomed here and bouncing, bid/ask tightening, just telling shorties before british bulls -;)
read into it what you will but GB like a tweet that Lord Bethell's comments were pasted into....
Not quite right. There were 3 blue days on the bounce in between.
Tottenham are trialing a 30sec covid test. If anyone can get any further information...
https://theathletic.com/2113227/2020/10/05/ornstein-spurs-trial-30-second-covid-test-loftus-cheek-and-alli-eye-january-moves/
8 straight days of falls since the presentation