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"Hancock has also announced today that the government has secured 20m lateral flow tests from a contract with the Derby-based manufacturer SureScreen Diagnostics."
Is there a Tory connection? Would be weird if there wasn't, right?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/feb/08/uk-covid-live-oxford-vaccine-south-african-variant-coronavirus-latest-updates?page=with:block-60212a038f08652153549cd7#block-60212a038f08652153549cd7
Is there a Tory connection? Would be weird if there wasn't, right?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2021/feb/08/uk-covid-live-oxford-vaccine-south-african-variant-coronavirus-latest-updates?page=with:block-60212a038f08652153549cd7#block-60212a038f08652153549cd7
Here's something interesting: the check is supposedly cheap and accurate, and the company offered it to the Government in March 2020, only to be ignored. So they sold it overseas instead. https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/science/coronavirus-uk-accurate-6-covid-19-test-has-only-attracted-tentative-government-interest/20/03/
Meanwhile, the Tories have forked out over ÂŁ1 billion on dodgy lateral flow tests with poor reliability, with the money going to foreign firms... https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/lateral-flow-tests-innova-unreliable-labour-claim-ps1bn-cost_uk_60183274c5b6bde2f5c1d35e
And here's an article that references Surescreen's test being used in Australia in May 2020... https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/my-positive-antibody-test-is-an-immunity-passport-in-all-but-name
And here's Matt Hancock earlier today, celebrating coming nearly a year late to the procurement process.
(He doesn't put it that way, of course!)
(He doesn't put it that way, of course!)
To sum up...
Here's a firm that has a product that's cheaper, better and produced locally, but because they didn't suck up to the right Tories they got sidelined for 11 months while others had cash firehosed at them.
Here's a firm that has a product that's cheaper, better and produced locally, but because they didn't suck up to the right Tories they got sidelined for 11 months while others had cash firehosed at them.
