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Wilson63 , I found a bit more info about the testing on the Liverpool City Council website. People with covid19 symptoms are required to make an appointment at designated sites for positive cases and they will we tested with the lft's. Those without any symptoms have to make appointments at a different set of sites where they have a nasal swab test which is then sent for analysis by PCR. Apparently there is a daily capacity of 50,000 to 60,000 lft's, 17,500 PCR swab test's and 5,000 home test kit's. Going off the latest figures there are 300 positive covid19 cases per 100,000 people in Liverpool, so in the total population of 500,000 you could be looking at somewhere in the region of 1,500 positive cases .Even if you quadruple this number including those with cold's that's only 6,0000 people who need to go a testing site for a lateral flow test , everybody else will go for a swab PCR test .Correct me if I'm wrong with my understanding of this , but to me the bulk of testing will be PCR. Have a look through this questions and answers link for details of testing, sorry no detail's of the supplier's.

https://liverpool.gov.uk/communities-and-safety/emergency-planning/coronavirus/how-to-get-tested/
https://liverpool.gov.uk/covidcases
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4268
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3868

I never realised that It-Is-International are actually situated in the Chancellor's constituency.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200812005519/en/Rishi-Sunak-Visits-UK-Manufacturer-of-COVID-19-Analysis-Equipment

https://www.usbio.net/kits/544132/genesig-q32-RealTime-PCR-Machine

Wilson63, I've just found what must be the most expensive q32 yet for sale in Switzerland at 34,092 Swiss francs , roughly £30,000 . What's more the company don't deal direct with Novacyt ,instead they purchase from US Bio . Looking on the US Bio website the q32 is now listed at $29,251 ,which if I remember correctly is up from somewhere in the $18/19,000 price band late spring this year .What price do Novacyt currently charge?
https://lucerna-chem.ch/shop/4167275/genesig-q32-real-time-pcr-machine
https://www.usbio.net/kit's/544132/genesig-q32-Real-Time-PCR-Machine

TayQ, I've just read the job description for a scientist at Microgen that you mentioned earlier. The wording certainly sets one thinking in a certain direction.

B2HS2L, you echoed my thoughts on the lamp assay's. Optigene were actually awarded that contract in late July but their website news section has never been updated since the mobile lab in a van was posted earlier that month .What you do get now is a message saying that they can only supply existing customers. I shall have to keep looking for new info on any links with Novacyt .

Last week Novacyt placed a job advert for a PCR assay design scientist. Part of the job description stated that the successful applicant would need experience in designing and validating assay's and lamp isothermal PCR .As far as I am aware Novacyt normally concentrate on qpcr testing ,so to start r+d work on lamp assay's would be quite a significant move .

There's no sign of the Winterplex on the current list of tests that have received FDA emergency use authorisation. I fully expect Novacyt will have submitted the test for approval but it's worth remembering that it took nearly 7 week's for the FDA to give approval to the original covid19 test .That was back in February and March when there were only a few test's waiting to be validated so I think we'll have to wait a little longer for that news.

Link to that mobile lab if it works
https://road.cc/content/news/vuelta-two-team-staff-no-riders-positive-covid-278081

Alamo you seem rather full of yourself . I suggest you try and bring some research of your own to the board .Every bit helps.

I give up with my links .Info is all out there.

https://www.bioser.com/bioser-todo-el-laboratorio-movil-covid-19-de-la-vuelta-una-iniciativa-pionera-en-el-deporte-espanol/

Currently the 18 stage tour of Spain cycling race ( La Vuelta) is taking place .This year they have a mobile lab that travels with the tour and provides daily covid19 test's for all the rider's and support team's .The test's for this lab are supplied by the Spanish company Bioser and are manufactured by guess who Primer Design.
https://www.lavuelta.es/en/news2020/la-vuelta-20-will-collaborate-with-bioser-and-biorama-to-guarantee-that-security-remains-at-the-head-of-the-race/21781
https://www.bioser-equipa-todo-el-laboratorio-movil-covid-19-de-la-vuelta-una-iniciativa-pionera-en-el-deporte-espanol/

Monthly liquidity rns due , will there be any other snippets of info with this .

Put any useful information on a new thread so it doesn't get lost when admin do their job and use the filter.

Hartlebury, I managed to find a link to the jobs . With the jobs being at Camberley they will probably be at at Lab21 .If this is the case it could be the antibody test's that they are packing as that is where they are produced .When the test was launched the other week they Novacyt said they had a production capacity with their partner of 3,00,000 test's a month. I wonder is this figure is about to be exceeded.
https://www.totaljobs.com/job/temporary-role/hays-job91085780

9" try listening to what Pascal Soriot has to say about Primer Design ,he knows rather a lot more than you in the pharmaceutical and testing world.

B2HS2L, thanks for the link .That visit took place 11 days after the care homes trial was announced and probably played a big part in the successful awarding of the recent NHS contract. What did suprise was the fact that they had upped production to 300 unit's a month as of the beginning of August. Since then we know they have been recruiting staff ,so that figure could be approaching the 400 mark by now .These numbers show they can meet the demand for the home market and still service the overseas market.

sharehunter3, I'd better leave that subject for now .

I see my post from last night on the vesting date has been removed.

B2HS2L, the related party transactions I was referring to are the sales made by Is-It- International to Is It Life Sciences.