Member Info for KilkennyTed

https://c-19direct.com/
Partnership between CCL & MTD
https://www.camclinlabs.co.uk/
https://www.minton.group/

Testing not isolating seems to be the new mantra.
https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/19407462.westhoughton-high-schools-successful-trial-keep-children-school/

Yet he still announced the other day that all restrictions will be lifted on 19th July subject to looking at the data next week. Still making decisions without all the facts.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/covid-restrictions-in-education-settings-to-end-at-step-4?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_source=ea2e8771-e79c-423a-9b0a-1ba79bf2d367&utm_content=immediately&fbclid=IwAR0S3xSxeG-D1rw3G9ycCbAEWXAy_edut4P5LqFfhNIahfRcgB7T95w1nrs
Interesting to note that twice weekly testing still to be carried out by school children till end of September but doesn't mention LFT. Not ruling it out though.

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN2E75QM
THU JUL 1, 2021 / 7:02 PM EDT
(Reuters) - French business services company Sodexo has been chosen to operate a further 121 fixed and mobile COVID-19 testing centres in the UK in a deal that it said could be worth 404 million pounds ($557 million).

Sodexo said the contract, struck with the UK's Department of Health & Social Care, would make it the country's largest provider of such testing centres.

"Sodexo's teams have moved quickly to set up COVID-19 testing centres as part of the industry-wide effort to tackle the pandemic," said Stuart Winters, head of Sodexo UK & Ireland's healthcare business.

Thanks for that @Saintsmith.
Tony Cooke on from about 06:50mins.
Very interesting to hear that CCL are now selling a testing service to the public. £65 per test. £120 for a pair.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000xkym

Annoying that the Guardian have listed these companies & only Abingdon are actually mentioned in the original article they are referring to.

https://bylinetimes.com/2021/06/30/health-minister-lord-bethell-failed-to-declare-27-meetings-held-at-outset-of-pandemic/

They completely blanked Randox who had the biggest mention.
"The records showed that Conservative MP Owen Paterson attended a meeting on 9 April between Lord Bethell and Randox – a firm that employs Paterson as a consultant to the tune of £100,000 a year. Randox has now been awarded nearly £500 million in public sector COVID-19 deals for the supply of testing services."

Times article

Novacyt
The pandemic pushed the Paris-based clinical diagnostic group Novacyt into stratospheric territory last year.

It was one of the first companies in the world to develop an accurate Covid test and clinched a deal to supply the NHS with Covid testing kits. Its share price rose 5,453 per cent in 2020.

In February it introduced new kit that could detect the South African, Brazilian and Kent strains of the virus. But in April it emerged that it had failed to win an extension of the NHS contract and so far this year its shares have fallen 61 per cent.

The company is expanding its portfolio of testing kits to detect new strains for the virus, including the Delta variant. Its growth plans have been thwarted by the many biotech companies that have launched rival versions, but experts are still upbeat about its prospects.

Streeter said: “Despite the NHS setback, the company has now been included in a Public Health England framework agreement, which means that health providers could buy its clinical products, including tests, without needing to strike fresh contracts.

“Although revenues are not expected to be anywhere near as strong as forecast this year, sales internationally are growing. With high levels of testing required before key industries, such as the travel sector, are able to fully open up, demand should grow for its new range of testing kits, once brought to market.

“Bumper sales over the past six months have enabled it to build up significant cash reserves to see it through any turbulence.”

Leave Mr Handblock anlone. Can't you see he has his hands full.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57594954.amp
Europe bracing itself for a new wave of the Delta Variant.

Doesn't really matter, it's been absorbed & the SP is what it is.

Let's hope the tide has changed finally. It's been a long painful slide since end of january. It has to change at some point & let's hope you caught near the bottom yesterday Bluelight. Good luck to you.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/deliveroo-to-boost-government-efforts-to-tackle-variants-of-concern

No fear of that tonight. Haha

Good day today trades v chat roughly 4/1. When the chat exceeds trades you know you're in trouble. Onwards and upwards my friends.

Well done Wilson. The Scots played well. Can't say it was a stunning game and I think the other countries competing will sleep well tonight.

From experience with aim the companies performance doesn't guarantee anything. It's about perceived potential. Which leads onto individuals investing in potential. So the thing that will drive the price is the volume of investors interested in the stock. Volume whether it is buys or sells will determine the price. At the moment volumes are low. Maybe 700k today. Approx 1% of total shares. Great news tomorrow may lead to 7m shares traded tomorrow or 10% of share value. If that is 2/1 buys to sell there's no holding that back.
Obviously I'm not a professional so you are free to disagree and stick me in the bin.

Positive cases & hospital admissions on a sharp incline.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/

Over 300k PCR test's a day & creeping up again.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/testing

Another customer expanding. https://www.investliverpool.com/news/covid-testing-firm-invests-2m-in-second-mersey-site/

https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/local/gas-explosion-fears-could-stop-aberdeen-clinic-offering-major-surgery/amp/ Ignore the headline. TAC Healthcare Aberdeen in association with primer design . 4000 tests per week.