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By the way, he still thinks Avacta is an excellent investment because of the oncology pipeline.

My partner and I have been arguing for some time about the potential effect of a vaccine on Avacta’s prospects. He seems to think that once a vaccine is declared ‘safe’ by the government, everyone will blithely go along and have it. No more need for testing, end of Avacta’s COVID role. As a mum of three whose kids needed to be vaccinated during the MMR scandal, I KNOW that uptake will not be 100% and rapid, home-based saliva testing will be the route to freedom.

On AVCT board yesterday there was talk of your specialist medical plastics being needed for manufacture of their lateral flow device which is expected to be HUGE. This might explain a lot.GLA

After an adverse patient reaction.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8711611/AstraZenecas-COVID-19-vaccine-trials-hold-suspected-reaction.html

After yesterday, any blue will be a welcome sight in my portfolio!

I bet Matt Han**** is aware of this too, and this is why he spent so much time in his speech yesterday talking about patients with ‘long term COVID’ . The Avacta ‘reveal’ when it comes will be stupendous.

Someone should tell Kate Garraway about this development!

Seconded. Well done ARB BOD.

https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3087

Apologies if this has already been posted, but I thought it interesting because it shows the level of expenditure being thrown at the problem and the fact that the Gov. are not expecting the ‘moonshot’ test to be available during Sept. :-(

“The UK government has spent £161m (€178m; $210m) on 5.8 million covid-19 testing kits, which will be rolled out across NHS hospitals from September and can provide a result within 90 minutes.”

“The RNA tests will be analysed by 5000 “Nudgebox” machines, supplied by London based consumer company DnaNudge. The machines can process up to 15 nose swabs a day without the need for a laboratory.

Found this on the SKIN BB

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-nhs-unable-to-provide-tests-after-labs-reach-critical-pinch-point-12066471

After his somewhat promissory and evasive performance in the HOC this afternoon, he is going to come under increasing media pressure to put a timeline on home testing.

I am curious about this part of the article.
[MH said....]

"We are doing everything we can. We have had these operational issues that I have talked about, we have had a problem with a couple of contracts and we discussed some of that in the House of Commons.

"But it's a matter of a couple of weeks until we can get all of that sorted in the short term."

Did anyone hear what he said about contract problems?

What a weirdly disjointed article!
Anyway, it’s an antibody test, so not Avacta.

Did I spy AW in a green laundry basket?

Every Panto needs it’s villain (or dame!)

I was just wondering whether Neil Bell has already swung into action behind the scenes to set up a NYSE listing in time for panto season (or whatever they have in the US)?

LOL Cheng ;-). I have Parliament live on in the background. they are all blathering on about Northern Ireland at present

You would have thought that this was precisely where the government could have expedited matters and bought the unicorn to the front of the queue.

(Taken from CAR BB where they are a bit confused by a sudden rise in SP on no news:

Interesting comments from our chief accountant in the annual report.
Quote: (as near as poss)
The base case financial projection was produced taking into account the anticipated effect of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic using the experience of the groups performance in the 1st quarter of the 20/21 financial year.
The forecast also takes into account the impact of the SIGNIFICANT NEW TOOLING ORDERS SECURED AFTER THE BALANCE SHEET DATE IN THE MEDICAL DIAGNOSTIC SECTOR WHICH ARE EXPECTED TO HAVE A MATERIAL POSITIVE IMPACT ON EARNINGS AND CASH GENERATION OVER THE NEXT 12 MONTHS AND FUTURE YEARS AS THE COMPANY MOVES INTO FOLLOW-ON-VOLUME PRODUCTION. End quote.

The Carclo message board is worth a quick read. Especially the thread started by frankseluk2

Que?

Milcait - totally agree, I think working within confines of Condor is not sitting well with him.

Kainos - totally disagree. Thought he looked very sexy in navy sweater and shirt. Move over Daniel Craig!

Catastrophising (apologies)!