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SA travel ban doesn't come into force until lunchtime tomorrow so morning flights aren't impacted.

Wonder how that level of spike mutation will impact the ability of the LFTs in circulation to detect this variant?

Roll up and place your bets. How long before:

A. It's designated a VOC
B. NCYT release an ruo assay specific to it

It's certainly getting some people hot under the collar.

Only another 8 to go, better late than never. It's not like NCYT had to pay for this service, oh they did.

UKHSA = shambles

Yes, you can be turned away. You're informed when booking the booster appointment that a face covering is required unless you have a medical exemption. Ideological ones don't count and it's legally enforceable.

200 since the start of November alone, surely there's a few shekels in it for NCYT.

It would be nice if we could offload that exsig we've got sitting on the shelves, even at cost. 30 m back in the coffers. I'm sure it's good to pickup Delta ;-)

The thing is, why were they allowed to carry out any further NHS testing at their other sites after the Wolverhampton lab was effectively shut down without rigorous auditing at all other sites. None of which it appears are accredited. The UKHSA is a joke.

Poor working practices and the cheapest assays available imo. Meanwhile ukhsa can't validate our assays for UK use. Remind me again what Jenny Harries is getting paid for. Shambles

It ain't just Germany, Belgium struggling for PCR capacity as well.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/belgium-all-news/194625/belgian-pcr-test-labs-cant-cope-with-influx-of-demand/?s=09

Hadn't looked at ONT in a few weeks, mcap at close on Friday 5.66bn. seems the DHSC kicking them in to touch didn't do them any harm. A forward pe in the 50s, nice work if you can get it but they were happy to embrace the media throughout the pandemic instead of hiding their light under a bushel. A lesson to be learned perhaps.

The 4.7m promate contract must surely have been used up, hopefully the new CEO has put his foot down and insisted on getting round the table before supplying any more. A dangerous game but 20m of invoices are now approaching a year overdue, at some point someone has to put an end to this.

Austria now closed to all tourists until mid December, others will follow.

@troublsome, in all honesty I don't know what the point was. What I do know is that covid and it's associated junk is back on the front page and likely to remain there for quite some time short of an alien invasion.

BBC News - Covid: WHO says it is very worried about Europe surge
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59358074

Cases on the rise again in the US after setting at a daily average of around 100k just as they hea into winter.

Covid junk? Is that the same covid junk that has delivered around 400m in revenue to this company in 2 yrs.

Oh, Incase you hadn't realized this. The reason they have a silly bank balance is because the funds are in dispute. End the dispute then they can start the spending.

Covid junk, dear me. Covid will be delivering revenue to this company for years to come. It's the very reason they have a future and will be able to diversify.

Perhaps we can foist off that 30m worth of exsig we've got sitting around.

That's a huge leap in cases, highest since before half term.

That is a big leap in cases, highest since late October prior to half term.

Dutch reaching testing capacity.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1523206/Covid-live-update-virus-EU-Christmas-lockdown-restrictions

ABDX - positive discussions with DHSC about recovery of their 7m owing. I suppose the positive is that parties are still talking.

Our rise yesterday was driven by France, perhaps some entities have simpl decided we're undervalued and over sold.