RE: Headcount - looks like we are onboarding Orient Gene cassettes , 300 staff23 Dec 2021 01:05
The answer to Q150 is:-
"At 30 November 2021, the Group employed 227 people. In addition, there were 84 agency staff, mostly working on the short term contract for Orient Gene."
The answer to question Q245 is:
"At 30 November 2021, we employed 106 Operations staff across our two sites, plus an additional 84 agency staff, mostly working on the short term contract for Orient Gene."
From the above, over half of the employees are NOT operations staff. That seems a lot for a manufacturing company.
In relation to the comments up thread, the recent RNS made it clear they were looking to resize DOWNWARDS. THe audio for question 206 indicates that the OG work will bring in Β£0.5M, with Β£0.1M profit.
In general commentary about the Q&A, 1) the "when did you learn that the contract was dead" question was answered about 25-30 times...was that really necessary...and many many other questions were repeats. out of the over 300 questions probably less than 1/2 were unique. 2) I predict the company will stop doing these Q&As in this format.
My questions were Q75,76,77. The answer to Q75 says that Covios approvals have no relevance for visitect...there is no generic piggybacking. The important bits of Q76 (any sign of govs using antibody tests for vaccination selection or part of of booster program like you said in jul) were not answered,