£10million Government Material Order15 Oct 2020 09:49
Just remember how sought after this test is regardless of MHRA approval. We know the government has put in a holding order so the UKRTC can ordered all the materials needed to crack on with manufacturing. Even if its split £5mill for the first 1m tests and £5mill for the materials for the next order, the next order will be huge.
The reason for this is not having to use a lab to process results. The underlying problem with all test capacities if labs not being able to process results quick enough. This test is now setting the standard for all covid tests moving forward. The success of the UKRTC IMO will lead to them being responsible for the delivery of the rapid antigen tests also - hopefully Mologic and Avacta get brought in with the agreement. Maybe this is why the new agreements are taking a bit longer......