Awactas Test will be the one4 Sep 2020 05:57
Express reporting on Matt Hancucks statement yesterday when he promoted a new £500million funding package to support trials of a 20-minute coronavirus test.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1330731/coronavirus-latest-news-drug-steroids-UK-deaths-COVID-19-cases-lockdown
Professor Jason Leitch, the Scottish government’s national clinical director, has claimed the new 20 minute test (LAMP, Optigene) is unlikely to be successful as “the logistics and science are behind”.
"This particular pilot and prototype - it’s going to be Salford and I think Southampton, Southampton have been involved in some early trials of mass city testing - I don’t think this test will be the one."
“But, in a slightly fictional world, thinking forward, if you had a non-invasive, fast, home test, then you can imagine what that might be able to do."
Looks like yesterdays statement was a stop gap in preparation for our test. When clinical validation is announced Awactas test will move to the front. As we all knew it would!
Test, test, test