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Led by the Health, Safety & Environment Department and Postal Outdoor Department, CWU/HQ has been pressing for the introduction of ‘Workforce Testing’ for Covid-19/Coronavirus as a positive, proactive way of combatting the spread and transmission of the virus in the workplace by quickly identifying those infected and getting them into self-isolation promptly, to firstly protect the individual and secondly reduce the risk of transmission of the virus, bearing in mind that many people may be infected but are either pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic and will not know they have the virus.
A positive test early in the course of the illness enables individuals to isolate themselves, reducing the chances that they will infect others and allowing them to seek treatment earlier, likely reducing disease severity and the risk of long-term disability, or death. Since it is recognised that nearly half of all Covid-19 infections are transmitted by people who are not showing any symptoms, identifying infected individuals via testing while they are pre-symptomatic, as well as those who are asymptomatic, workforce testing in Royal Mail Group, one of the UK’s largest employers, could therefore play a major role in stopping the pandemic.

A ‘tripartite’ agreement has been reached involving the CWU, Royal Mail Group and the Department of Health and Social Care for Royal Mail to be involved in a wider government initiative, running a number of pilots to test the concept of regular weekly Covid-19 testing in the workplace. The pilot, forms part of the plan to roll out mass testing technology across the country with the full support, help and assistance of the Representatives and members of the South Yorkshire Postal Branch. Sheffield City Delivery Office has been selected to run a 4-week pilot to trial ‘lateral Flow Testing’ whereby the workforce will be offered the new 30-minute rapid lateral flow tests (LFTs), which can be administered in person at the workplace.

Spot on post,exactly same at my D.O, walks saturday told to concentrate on parcels,and leave mail ,so to make room for incoming packets ,all this before the christmas pressure or black friday as even started,no idea how this will pan out,but dont think theres a happy ending somehow.

Plus he,s a tight yorkshire man ,and RNS,s cost money.

Same here sold my few 4444 shares didnt get confirmation e mail ,did it three times then all three e mails arrived ,received money and managed a few Avacta at 103p,contacted HL to explain ,no answer .

as given a breakdown of deal on twitter.

on IES board.

Found the last paragraph hilarious ,considering the state of the delivery office i work in .

Royal Mail and Amazon are scrambling to seize control of Boris Johnson’s “Operation Moonshot” programme to deliver 215,000 home testing kits a day.

The duo are this weekend finalising rival bids to win a £550m, one-year contract from the taxpayer to spearhead home testing as part of NHS Test and Trace.

The Department for Health has given operators four days warning, prompting a frenzied effort to submit bids ahead of a deadline on Tuesday.

Along with delivering 215,000 home testing kits every day, seven days of Covid test “buffer stock” must be held. Up to four tests can be delivered to each household every day, official filings reveal.

The contract value could swell to more than £1bn with an option to extend for another 12 months.

Amazon, founded by the world’s richest person Jeff Bezos, was awarded the contract for the home testing of key workers in March. The US tech giant has waived any fees and charges for its services. However, the tender notice says: “Price is not the only award criterion.”

A mass home testing regime is a central plank of Mr Johnson’s ambition to allow Britons to return to a more normal life until scientists develop a Covid-19 vaccine.

Last month, Royal Mail’s Keith Williams said: “[Moonshot] is an opportunity for Royal Mail to show what we can do.”

Thanks but it,s true.

Idid,siht me pants ,thought AS had bought another house .

Like i said dont own any shares ,but wish shares holders well, i only own one company in the Bio sector.

For clarity thought id better post the full message . Woody there is unrest in the shareholders, our members shares don’t stop anything.

The company is expected to announce upward of 500 million loss in November and if they don’t have an agreed change plan than the pressure will really be applied.

In terms of you don’t believe that is on the table , fair enough. No point in me discussing further with you.
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Not invested here ,sold all my free shares ,just look in to see if anythings mentioned regarding talks, just been on royal mail chat,and a chap called martin walsh who,s on the union executive to quote him The company is expected to announce upward of 500 million loss in November ,not sure if thats better or worse than expected .

P.S presume this is happening ,so dont have to replace people in the callers office.

If you dont work in delivery ,youve no idea whats happening,not sure if its a nationwide thing but on top of doing collections (pillar boxes ) and picking up customer returns ,latest add on is on the 318,s no opening times ,so ring a number and ask for a redelivery ,so with the number of oversized parcels ,you end up forcing bigger packets in your pouches ,quiet often slippping them,and surprise surprise 2 days later you are taking the redelivery, good luck with that as christmas pressure arrives.

Q35: Do you expect to see any revenue from any of the Covid-19 tests in 2020?

We anticipate, potentially, very significant income from the COVID-19 tests in development (Adeptrix research test, spike ELISA research test, antigen LFT and other undisclosed opportunities). However, we are not currently disclosing any specific financial forecasts / targets. We will update the market with financial targets for each of these products as soon as we are in a position to.

From BBN Twitter 16th october tell me Boris Johnson isn't talking about #AVCT right now.

"Saliva in the mouth...British companies...bought millions"

Who else could that possibly be?

Quoting Boris But in future, in the near future, we want to start using testing to identify people who are negative – who don’t have coronavirus and who are not infectious – so we can allow them to behave in a more normal way, in the knowledge they cannot infect anyone else with the virus.

“And we think, we hope, we believe that new types of tests which are simple, quick and scalable will become available. They use swabs or saliva and can turn round results in 90 or even 20 minutes. Crucially, it should be possible to deploy these tests on a far bigger scale than any country has yet achieved – literally millions of tests processed every single day,” added Johnson.

A quote from BBN Twitter yesterday I find it jaw dropping that #AVCT feels it can effectively park the US opportunity, simply because the UK (and possibly Europe) opportunity is so damn big.

I find it difficult to conclude that UK Gov is not all over this test. However little AVCT want to talk about it.