Thermo9 Apr 2020 08:52
Just seen this in the FT
Thermo Fisher says it can provide 100,000 coronavirus tests a day to UK
US giant Thermo Fisher plans to supply all the Covid-19 tests needed for the UK government to ramp up screening to 100,000 per day, the company’s chief operating officer said on Thursday.
Mark Stevenson told the BBC’s Today Programme that Thermo Fisher had agreed with the UK government to supply “more than 100,000 tests per day” and would scale up its manufacturing capacity in Britain to enable the kits to be manufactured here.
The government intends to increase the number of diagnostic PCR tests being done for the virus each day to 100,000 by the end of April, from around 15,000 at the moment.