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own roadmap not owned.

100% agree Kitzie. The company has it's owned roadmap & knows where it is heading long term. I've only had one read so far but plenty of nuggets in there. This rns won't appease all shareholders but it has my vote of confidence. Might get the hardback :)

152. The UK is a global leader in genome sequencing, which in positive cases allows the identification of Variants of Concern, and continues to scale up its capacity. The Government is also working with diagnostics providers to adapt PCR tests to detect specific Variants of Concern once they have been identified. This, combined with whole genome sequencing, should enable mutations to be detected more rapidly, enabling action to be taken. The UK will also provide sequencing support for other countries should they need it, helping to track variants wherever they appear in the world and in turn shaping the UK’s border policies. Despite this progress, the risks posed by Variants of Concern remain significant. Identifying and determining the extent of the risk posed by a new variant may take some time, during which it could spread through the community, making it essential that the Government is able to act in a sensible and proportionate way as the evidence is still emerging.
153. Where a dangerous Variant of Concern is identified and is likely to pose a real risk to the vaccination programme or public health, the Government will take a highly precautionary approach, acting fast to address outbreaks. The Government is developing an enhanced toolkit of measures to address Variants of Concern, including surge PCR testing, enhanced contact tracing, communications and targeted enforcement.

Bit of light reading for you. The road map.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/963491/COVID-19_Response_-_Spring_2021.pdf

Welcome to you all. Looks like the party has moved houses.

Are we blue yet?

should be good.

Very positive news. Should be a good start to the week.

KilkennyTed
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Price: 242.50
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RE: Balls of steel needed more than ever.09 Jun 2020 23:24
Chrishar .
Conviction is key here. Do you/ we believe in our investment. I'm sure some who invested at the peak are doubting their decision or may even have sold at a loss. The past month has been brutal on the SP but you have to have conviction in your investments. What's has changed?
Increase in sales.
Cash in bank.
Debt free.
As GM has said this is a transformational time for the company. Many people talk about x amount per share when we get bought out. How about we set our sights on Aquisitions.
Is that too Rampy?

I'm confused. Correct me if I'm wrong are you giving investment advice based on your history of bad decisions.

Cheeky. It's early days I think you'll be ok. Although I can't promise that.

God I hope there's a blockbuster rns on Monday.

I would hazard a guess that none of us know ShaunP. We are all faceless names on a bb. I wasn't going to comment on this but people actually making out that he has cost them money is absurd. We are all grown ups. We make our own decisions.
ShaunP collated information gathered from many on this board including me? So if he is Guy Fawkes I must be one of the plotters. The one crime he has committed is to spend too much time on this board.
Let me into a little secret. I've never read his files.
DYOR

AJ Bell
https://www.youinvest.co.uk/market-research/LSE%3AMXC

Let's see how "High" we can get today :)

I wouldn't take it personally Trinityman. As Wilson has said, It looks like a thread has been removed. Which means my 1 post for the day has gone forever. But don't worry guy's . I will return.

Buy on AJ Bell easy enough.
https://www.youinvest.co.uk/market-research/LSE%3AMXC

The government is trying to secure 28,000 hotel rooms to accommodate the quarantining travellers.

Ministers announced plans for hotel quarantine on January 27 but did not send out a tendering document detailing their requirements until Thursday night. Hotel chains were given until 5pm last night to respond. The new hotel quarantine system will have to be in place by February 15.

Leading hotel chains, which until Thursday night had no detailed information about the government’s requirements, are concerned that they will not have enough time.

Meher Nawab, chief executive of the London Hotel Group, told BBC Breakfast on BBC One: “There has been no open dialogue between the hospitality sector and the government. There is a lot of training to go into this, a lot of health protocols as well, and actually the insurance has to be approved.

“If you want to do something properly, and the amount of due diligence and protocol that has to go into place, it takes a long time.”

Nawab said that the hygiene measures could not be introduced “overnight”. He explained that ventilation systems would have to be looked at “very closely” to ensure they did not inadvertently spread the virus.

There are also significant concerns about getting insurance cover in the event that hotels were forced to close because of coronavirus outbreaks.

The tendering documents state that the government is seeking hotel accommodation for 1,400 people a day arriving in Britain from 33 high-risk countries.

They will be expected to pay £1,000 each for 11 days of hotel quarantine.

The development comes as the government moves to expand a workplace scheme that entitles sites with more than 250 employees to apply to NHS Test and Trace for lateral flow tests, which can return a result in 20 minutes.

The new initiative will apply to employers with more than 50 staff as the government seeks to identify more asymptomatic people who might be unaware that they are spreading the virus.

Manufacturers, construction sites and essential retailers that are open at present will qualify for the scheme, which is likely to be widened as lockdown restrictions are lifted and more people return to work.

Ministers are concerned that one in three people with the virus have no symptoms, meaning that they are unwittingly putting others at risk.

All travellers arriving in Britain will face mandatory coronavirus tests in an effort to stop its spread and identify new mutant strains.

The Times has also learnt that workplace testing for coronavirus will be increased next week under plans to identify infected people who are not showing symptoms.

At present people travelling to Britain are required to provide proof of a negative coronavirus test taken no more than 72 hours before they enter the country.

Government advisers have said, however, that the pre-departure testing will make only a “limited contribution” to stopping people with coronavirus entering the country.

Under the new regime, to be implemented on February 15, people will be required to take PCR swab tests for the virus on days two and eight of their ten-day quarantine.

The tests taken on day two will be sent for genomic testing to identify new strains of coronavirus. Those who fail to get tested will face fines and travellers will be expected to pay for the tests.

Arrivals from 33 “red list” countries, where mutant strains have been identified, will have to go into mandatory quarantine in hotels for 11 days. They will also be tested on day two and day eight of their isolation period.

It emerged yesterday that the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) of government advisers warned on January 21 that the present restrictions would not be enough to stop coronavirus being imported.

Official minutes said: “Pre-departure testing can make a limited contribution to reducing the proportion of people travelling whilst infectious. However, the residual proportion of infections that would still arrive in the UK are so significant that it cannot remove the need for further measures.”

It warned that a negative result did not guarantee that the traveller was free from infection at the time of travel “since they may have been tested before they became infected or during the period when the viral load is not yet sufficient to be detectable, in addition to false negatives”.

Meanwhile new variants might emerge that would not be detected by the present commercially available tests, the paper warned. Effectiveness was “highly dependent on timing”, with maximum benefit when tests were as close as possible to the journey.

The move will bring the UK into line with countries including Italy, Canada and Dubai, where tests on arrival are mandatory. In most countries testing takes place at the airport.

Combining testing on arrival with quarantine for all travellers will bring the UK into line with the most stringent countries in the world where borders are open, such as South Korea. The travel industry has argued that mandatory testing on arrival could be used to remove the need to quarantine.

Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, rejected their appeals, saying that too many asymptomatic travellers would be allowed to enter the country, exacerbating the spread of the virus.

QuickDraw good point well made. Let's hope that one positive that comes out of this that our health service it's better equipped to help in the fight against all forms of illness. Early diagnoses can save money & more importantly lives.