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You know about this on Wednesday, 14 October 2020

Time:15.00 - 16.00
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/124191/global-health-forum-inside-react-imperials-covid-19-home-testing-study/

Comment made today on the Parliament Channel which has a select committee talking about Covid 19 and London Transport.
Andy Byford who is the Commissioner for London Transport discussed the precautions they are taking on the underground .

Along with all the obvious stuff he happen to mention that Imperial College London were presently taking samples of circulating air within the underground , and testing / monitoring for variations of Covid 19 in circulation.

KMK did say that trials would begin in the UK for their new Pathogen detector - so may or not be technology from KMK at the present time.

Whats also interesting is that Imperial College London are leading the UKs Real-time Assessment of Community Transmission (REACT) Study which is heavily involved in trialing, testing etc the new wave of self testing covid antigen home tests - and therefore, possibly other technology for testing and monitoring covid 19 in the community - especially circulating air quality in confined areas such a s tubes, stadiums etc etc etc.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/research-and-impact/groups/react-study/

Regarding the CRISPR mention in the DARPA link earlier .Only a few days ago the two chemists that discovered the gene editing tool CrISP were awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. It was discovered just eight years ago and is revolutionary.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nobel-prize-chemistry-gene-editing-tool-crispr-wins

This article is a interesting read . Note the link to CRISPR

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/diagnostics/darpa-wants-scifi-pathogen-detectors

Forgot to add.
KMKs technology has always been hard to explain and sell to potential investors IMO but this may not change.
The early detection of biological threat detection has now taken on such a vital relevance to the world, and the stock market. Even though KMK were working on this solution since 2018 - its now a gift and if what KMK are working on gets treated the same way that other company's presenting covid solutions have been recently treated then KMK may be due for a much needed, and easier understood face lift as far as potential investors are concerned. They will become the company coming up with solutions for early detection for Covid and other dangerous virus's.

Mick.
An interesting way to look at the future possibility is to imagine that the technology was in service last November / December in all major city's, airports, port and transit hubs around the world.. The virus would have been picked up early in Wuhan, then at Chinese transit hubs, airports etc - giving out an alert. However, more reassuringly anyone arriving from say Wuhan / China and arriving at an international airport - say Heathrow - would instantly ( less than an hour), of getting on the plane , raised the alarm that a harmful virus was on board and destined for a particular country -at this point, this would set off a higher level response - possibly cancelling the flight / a quarantine on arrival.
in London any plane arriving with this status , would be quarantined along with passengers, i guess.
If only a few country's used the technology they could still insist that all airliners destined for UK, say have this technology, and it could be regulated and monitored from UK.
If its true that we may be in an era where we self test every morning and have a covid passport then we will definitely want to be assured that going to the local cinema, match, concert . flight is also covid secure. just some thoughts.

If the barriers to entry are very high, the company's involved in this technology should do very well.

I am no scientist , far from it. The race is on at the moment to get virus testing kits that give a 5-20 minute false or negative readout with a 98 5 plu accuracy ( that last 2% is very important as if test given out to millions / tens of millions of people say twice per year then that 2% could mean 2 out of 100 or 20 / 1000 or 200/ 10,000 or more likely 2000 people out of each million tested will not get an accurate reading. Compare that with Kromek who state their technology gives a "false alarm in just one in 800,000 tests."

KNK technology does not sound like a personal testing kit as these those that are being chased at the moment BUT, will come into their own once society opens up again, so to give confidence that the arena, hospital, airport, transport etc that you are going to visit has an early detection / monitoring systems that identifies building that are covid infected, and those that are Covid safe. Its fine knowing that you are covid free but you / government will want to know which buildings are also covid free - keep them open. Whether this technology will be applicable to smaller business like clubs, pubs restaurants - depends on price i guess.

Must be an error on this site then. Its not showing any trades since that time. Cheers

Plus there was two price minotoring rns after 4pm?

Can anyone explain to me what happened to the trades after 14.51 this afternoon? It's hard to believe there was not one until close. If you look at the one day graph it's a horizonal line? Strange on a day when volume was so good.

In my experience what tends to happen at this stage is a flurry of share tipsters in sunday papers or others - give the company a helping hand which will get the sp back to late teens.... may not happen this time, but has happened several times before.

The contract has been awarded. Theretofore news due today!

whats the latest price please

Iv'e been in and out of Kromek for years and done well, ill continue over the next few years as well. Interesting to note that pre covid shutdown ( feb 20) share price was approx 25p and even post Covid lockdown ( late April) it hit a high of approx 23p, before the sp went down the sink with everything else.....business is now back on track as was before lockdown according to the company..... I'm staying invested to some degree into the 20s, and maybe much much longer - see how news develops on the pathogen detection side.....if goes well could transform this company on just that business channel alone.

From "Directors Talk" interviews.

Fantastic description of KMK's future prospects - especially how the Darpa Bio security detection product that can detect pathogens such as Covid is progressing. End of this yer the prototypes will be placed in numerous settings in US for pilots and trials - they are very confident - with large scale deployment the aim.

This share is just of its year low, due to covid, but as Arnab Basu states in this interview - business has now returned to pre covid days and with several new contracts in discussion. This year was on course to be their best year so far, until Covid , now back on course as customers are returning . well worth a read if thinking about investing.

Published Today. Interview with Arnab Basu.
https://www.***************************/kromek-group-plc-the-world-may-never-have-to-experience-another-pandemic-interview/412862924

The MOU was announced to investors on 9th April. The MOU is for an initial period of six months. So six months up V . Soon

http://www.omegadiagnostics.com/Portals/0/RNS%20MOU%20on%20COVID-19%20Consortium.pdf

Safy, Where do i find this information about the MOU - do you have any pointers? ill have a look at it.

It has been often mentioned that the CAbC-19 self-test confirmation is expected this week. Someone mentioned by Tomorrow. Can someone show me where they found that information? Cheers Vas

Yes. Same as a pregnancy test. Can't harm you unless you swallow it!