RE: Chinese Test19 Apr 2021 08:57
My comment added to the Telegraph article:
Lets be clear on these tests. I have been following their development by a number of companies worldwide since last March. The Chinese Innova tests were only approved for professional supervised use. This is why the results in Liverpool were so bad. Handon**** wanted a test for home use so had the test emergency validated for home use and rebranded the test as a NHS test. The boxes being given out have the Chinese manufacturers name on the end of the box. The government now has huge stockpiles of these tests having spent £2.4 billion on them and tens of millions with people like Virgin to fly them here.
The government has formed a manufacturing consortium to make a sovereign UK test using British manufacturers with highly accurate test components but PHE has been slow to validate these tests.
In the meantime we have to use Chinese tests....the irony!
You may wish to look ate the websites of companies such as Avacta PLC, BBI solutions, Omega diagnostics etc