RE: Lol @ £407 Mar 2021 12:55
you imagine around 1m tests made a day? good imagination
we know that initial manufacturing capacity is 10k an hour (this has been repeated recently) that is 80k a 8hr shift lets for arguments sake they have lines running all day that is 3 8hr shifts which is 240k tests a day less than a quarter of what you have assumed.
Now we know they scaling up production at Cardiff but we have no idea how much, it seams reasonable to me to use the numbers they have given us rather than pull numbers out of the air.
So to start I think anything up to £1.5M a week is a good result. Where it will end up now that is more interesting. To get to your 1M tests a day produced we would need 4 and a bit production lines working flat out. Possible? i think it is, I personally think that is what they have been doing in Cardiff. but to give the impression we going to be doing millions of tests a day straight off the bat is raising expectations unrealistically. Your right the potential is huge but it is just that, potential.
I am excited about the next few months but i have been here for many years and there is plenty that can happen between now and next week let alone next month.
time will tell.