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Normally 220,000 passengers per day when Heathrow open, or 80m per year, one airport

It could become the standard test at airports

Spoke to an ex-colleague working in London they have been working at home but are now returning to work a couple days a week. From 7th September their employer is providing antibody tests at work.

PEPFAR is the largest fund supporting HIV testing. It has stated in the past it will only invest in poc tests and will only use WHO approved tests. It has increased its budget to $400m pa
https://www.hiv.gov/blog/pepfar-announces-latest-hiv-program-progress-and-new-investments-reach-more-people-greatest

Tricky the Omega tweet just provided seems to confirm the MHRA standards have been met, just waiting the word

So have the follow up 2000 tests for evidence to MHRA been completed in the attached test. Results were notified to students in 24 hours so this test will now be complete. If it is the test presumably the data will be analysed/summarised and submitted next week?
https://www.ulster.ac.uk/news/2020/august/ni-universities-launch-joint-pilot-testing-programme-exploring-covid-19-exposure-and-immunity-among-student-population

When they are no longer directors they no longer report as directors but as significant holders. It is an obligation to inform the company if you sell/buy as a significant holder. The company does not know the underlying make up of a nominee holding unless they request that information which they are permitted to do. Not all individuals do it.

Any main board director of any listed company has to report every transaction irrespective of size. If they are directors of subsidiaries and not the plc that rule does not apply.

In reality his shares could be part of any of the larger nominees. Anyone know how Kissei register their investments as they like to have an interest in small partners?

Soup I understand what you say my own view on DTs shares is that if he sold to below 3% we would have received another TR1, that did not come. Therefore he still has a significant holding. If this is the case he would appear on the list of holders above 3% unless registered in another name, conclusion he is now registered in an nominee. For a private individual it is rare to have your own named account.
If I was a gambling person I would say the following holding may be DTs
HSDL Nominees Limited 37,756,993 7.70%

Soup I think you will find the underlying shareholder is the legal owner of the shares. The depositary is just the registered entity providing a service. When you are a director your shares are held directly on the share register and administered by the company secretary so movements are monitored and reported. When you are no longer a director the level of reporting is reduced as described by our intrepid sailor irrespective of the reference used for any large holder and of course the access to been held directly on the register is removed. So we will see the same requirement will happen to DG’ shares when they have been re-registered. The other change we have noticed is the CPI shares have moved to a nominee this will be because they would original have had either an in-hour nominee service (very inefficient) or they would have asked their registrar to have all their holdings in their own name (more costly) but not untypical of a large pension fund or govt dept. Speaking from experience.

Govt so far has spent over £50m on ‘failed’ antibody tests, having cancelled £50m of a £70m Chinese order. Time to step up and support the RTC.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8481019/amp/UK-Government-panic-bought-13-4million-worth-Roches-coronavirus-antibody-tests.html

Surprised Superdrug are not offering antibody tests

By implication those being formed now are not the blue ribbon partnerships

I recall Colin starting if we go back a bit we were able to choose/select who we partnered with for development/manufacture/distribution of Covid tests.

Astra’s deal with RedX was of interest, I wondered if it was a reaction buy (10 year development) to losing out with NFX. NXP002 time to market should be a lot quicker?

Put into context an extra 300k tests a day equates to 100m tests pa rounding down to the nearest 10m

Ten o’clock news on a regular basis quote Govt saying testing by the end of September will be 500k a day. It is currently meant to be 200k. That is an increase of 300k, not just in tests. But without poc tests that is 150% increase in lab capacity. The two contracts today satisfy testing in homes but are both minuscule compared to the uplift required. The majority of those additional 300k can only be delivered from new sources.

To support the new slogan ‘Let’s get Tested’ the U.K. Govt are financing a new film Carry On Testing. Sid James will be played by Boris Johnson’s father and Barbara Windsor will be played by Baroness Harding.

This is the first time it has been stated they can sell to anyone other than the U.K. govt
“ If demand through the UK-RTC was to go above “200,000 tests per week, either from the UK Government, or from other third parties, the Company would allocate additional capacity to meet that demand as well.