RE: Government Order25 Aug 2020 19:03
We know that Matt Han**** want's the UK to have a world class diagnostics industry. I wonder if Novacyt are helping them build it? With all these new positions created you have to wonder. Piece from an interview a couple of months back. Like the bit where he states "We invented the test in January" . That has to be Primer as we were first out of the blocks.
“The problem was that the testing didn’t exist and we had to build that testing capacity.”
The Health Secretary said ministers had put “a huge amount of effort and resources” into supporting care homes during the pandemic.
But he added: “It would have been wonderful if we had gone into this crisis with a global-scale diagnostics industry, in the way that Germany did.
“But we went in more like other countries like France, which similarly have had to build testing capability almost from scratch.”
Mr Han**** claimed that Britain is “miles ahead” and now a world leader when it came to testing for the virus.
“We invented the test in January. In February we got the number of tests up to 2,000 (a day). In March we multiplied that by five times to 10,000. Then we set the 100,000 target,” he told Sky News.
“The Germans started with this enormous diagnostics industry. But if you look at other countries around the world we are miles ahead on testing and we are now one of the world leaders.