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Patience is a virtue. NCYT fundamentals are great and many forgot it is selling in more than 150 countries, including the US.

Here it is Hartlebury:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/939591/Testing_for_homecare_workers__summary_poster_for_print_.pdf

PCR Testing for identifying new variants with NCYT participating progressing:
Https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/939591/Testing_for_homecare_workers__summary_poster_for_print_.pdf

Surge testing of the new variant.
Https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/surge-testing-begins-stockton-booking-19971117

Hi ak_gabba. Thanks for for putting the full link.

'When Will It End?': How a Changing Virus Is Reshaping Scientists' Views on COVID-19
A new consensus is emerging among scientists, according to Reuters interviews with 18 specialists who closely track the pandemic or are working to curb its impact
Chris Murray, a University of Washington disease expert whose projections on COVID-19 infections and deaths are closely followed worldwide, is changing his assumptions about the course of the pandemic.
Murray had until recently been hopeful that the discovery of several effective vaccines could help countries achieve herd immunity, or nearly eliminate transmission through a combination of inoculation and previous infection. But in the last month, data from a vaccine trial in South Africa showed not only that a rapidly-spreading coronavirus variant could dampen the effect of the vaccine, it could also evade natural immunity in people who had been previously infected.
"I couldn't sleep" after seeing the data, Murray, director of the Seattle-based Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, told Reuters. "When will it end?" he asked himself, referring to the pandemic. He is currently updating his model to account for variants' ability to escape natural immunity and expects to provide new projections as early as this week.

A new consensus is emerging among scientists, according to Reuters interviews with 18 specialists who closely track the pandemic or are working to curb its impact. Many described how the breakthrough late last year of two vaccines with around 95% efficacy against COVID-19 had initially sparked hope that the virus could be largely contained, similar to the way measles has been.

This Covid nightmarish experience is just the first warning salvo on what to expect in the future. There will be new viruses and new pandemics as humans are sometimes evolving in a destructive way. So being invested for the long term in Novacyt equals to taking a great position in a company that is at the forefront of the viral testing sector. They are no only involved in the control of human viruses but also in animals and agriculture sectors. This company will become huge if it is not taken over in the very near future.

The problem is that even in France and Italy they detected it a while ago. So the world may find itself turning around for a few years before this ends.

The UK is taking the variants seriously as is France and the US. These will challenge the soundness of existing vaccines. So IMO testing that detect the mutations will become the front line protection against the spread of variants. NCYT has all what it takes to help in this area more than 150 countries in the world. - - - Mr Han**** said: "Our current vaccines have not yet been studied against this variant and we're working to understand what impact it might have, but we do know that this variant has caused significant challenges in Brazil, so we're doing all we can to stop the spread of this new variant in the UK, to analyse its effects and to develop an updated vaccine that works on all these variants of concern and protect the progress that we've made as a nation."

Brazil variant may spread more easily.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56252779

Israel's increasing coronavirus infection rates and the presence of different virus strains have been raising concerns, but health experts say the country's vaccination drive requires a change of perspective.

Variants are now the key in the UK, France and the US. I wonder how the other European countries will deal with the detection of mutations which will be the main future big challenge.

Global coronavirus numbers edging back up after weeks of decline, says WHO: "By
Erin Cunningham and
Derek Hawkins
March 2, 2021 at 2:40 p.m. GMT+1 - Washington Post.
Please Note

The global number of new coronavirus cases rose for the first time in nearly two months, the World Health Organization said Monday, blaming the surge in infections on circulating variants and premature efforts to lift public health restrictions.
Cases over the past week jumped in every region except for Africa and the Western Pacific, the U.N. agency said, after declining for six weeks straight. In the United States, a steady drop in new cases last month also appeared to be leveling off and there are fears it could reverse course amid yet another wave of infections.
Here are some significant developments:

President Biden is set to announce Tuesday that pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. will help make Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine in an an unusual pact between competitors that could boost the supply of the newly authorized vaccine. The administration brokered the arrangement.
The government’s top infectious-disease expert, Anthony S. Fauci, on Monday reiterated that the United States will stick to a plan to inoculate tens of millions of Americans with two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s and Moderna’s coronavirus vaccines.
After a study from England showing that the first dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine sharply reduced the risk of serious illness and death among the elderly, France has reversed its position and authorized the vaccine for the aged.
While much of the world is using restrictions and vaccines to try to tame the coronavirus, Brazil’s outbreak is worse than it has ever been.
A new study reports there have been hundreds of covid-linked attacks against health-care workers globally over the past year.
More than 513,000 people have died of the coronavirus in the United States with the rolling weekly average of new cases and deaths both rising by 4 percent.

The previous article shows clearly that France, with a similar size in population and GDP as the UK, is extensively using PCR tests with sequencing of new variants. We all know who has such facilities... Similar contract volumes as NHS ones ? ...

Just translated an article from French (from BFM TV) regarding the UK variant in France and the PCR tests they are doing: "Covid-19: the UK variant is now the majority in France March 1, 2021 "The UK variant now concerns about half of people with Covid in France," said Jean Castex Thursday at a press conference. Three days later, it officially and formally became the majority in the country, indicates this Sunday the Director General of Health (DGS) Jérôme Salomon in an interview with the Journal du dimanche. "The screening of the vast majority of positive PCR tests allows us to have a very detailed analysis of their distribution in the territory. Today, the British variant is in the majority (53% of cases according to the latest results), "said the DGS. + 50% in less than two months A figure which is therefore hardly a surprise, but which could increase the strength of the epidemic tenfold due to the nature of the so-called British variant, considered to be more contagious than the "historic" strain of the coronavirus. “Unfortunately, the probability that the situation will deteriorate is very high,” noted Prof. Yazdan Yazdanpanah, infectious disease specialist member of the Scientific Council. The daily recalls that the percentage of English variant stood at 3% in early January, less than two months ago, which marks an increase of some 50% in the meantime. Under these conditions, is a general confinement of the population to be feared? In the JDD, Jérôme Salomon believes that the curfew "works very well" and that we "can still avoid confinement if everyone is mobilized", adding that "it is the absolute weapon when the curve explodes , but it is a very heavy weapon ”.

Two things to retain regarding NCYT testing for those not aware: 1/ Provide testing with additional information on the type of variant and 2/ Getting subcontracted work for all positive results from other companies without this expertise in order to determine if people are infected with any of the new variants. NCYT is working hard on a database in identifying the fingerprints of new variants by monitoring all new mutations worldwide.

Apparently the vaccin is less responsive to the Brazilian variant. The big pharmas have to return to the drawing board for new vaccins. Thanks to NCYT, we have at least a tool to detect the mutation types.

This article was from January.

As there are more and more variants, testing needs to include their accurate detection, thus why NCYT is at the forefront of testing. Testing simply "positive" only does not say if one is infected by any variant. Thus testing should now include the type of variant. No lft test has this possibility.

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