A dozen universities in England and Wales have set up their own Covid-19 testing facilities as thousands of students in Scotland are banned from going to parties and pubs this weekend – as outbreaks are recorded on at least 10 campuses across the UK. Up to 125 students have contacted coronavirus across three universities in … Read more
12 universities set up their own Covid testing – as thousands of students are banned from going to parties or pubs at weekend after outbreaks on TEN campuses across UK Student outbreaks recorded in Exeter, Edinburgh, Manchester and Glasgow Eleven universities in England and one in Wales set up their own testing facilities It comes … Read more
Most accurate coronavirus antibody testing kits revealed: Three finger-prick tests ‘are as accurate as sophisticated lab analysis’ with 98% accuracy Finger prick antibody tests can be used to tell if someone has already had Covid Researchers compared the top commercial testing kits available to hospitals They found all of them had a 95 per cent … Read more
The last time I drove a Porsche Panamera I had £3.3million in gold bullion stashed in the boot. I was taking part in an audacious run across London from a secret location to a vault in Hatton Gardens carrying a total of £10million in January 2018. Sadly no gold was involved when test-driving two new … Read more
Sort out coronavirus testing… or else: Teaching union and Children’s Commissioner warn Government schools could be forced to close again and ‘a generation failed’ unless emergency measures are taken Union demands children and school staff be made a ‘high priority’ for testing It tells PM to not take support for the wider reopening of schools … Read more
Britain’s biggest Covid-19 testing lab is prioritising Premiership Rugby stars and travellers to Dubai, company insiders have claimed. Randox Laboratories in Co Antrim, Northern Ireland, reportedly also regularly fails to provide test results within 24 hours to members of the public. The lab is responsible for a quarter of all community tests across the UK after … Read more
Matt Hancock has denied the Government failed to plan for a surge in demand for coronavirus tests, and claimed the spike at up to four times capacity was ‘very, very hard to predict’. Batting off criticism, he blamed the public of applying for tests when they didn’t have symptoms and accused Britons in self-isolation of … Read more
Vulnerable people living in care homes are ‘dying of loneliness,’ as they’re deprived from seeing families due to lockdown, while delays in testing have exposed ‘huge staff shortages,’ in the sector, it has been claimed. Baroness Ros Altmann, a former Minister of State for pensions, welcomed Matt Hancock’s announcement yesterday that care home residents would … Read more
An eerie silence suddenly befell Committee Room number six just after 4pm yesterday. Baroness Dido Harding had just explained to the Commons’ science and technology committee how she’d come to be head of our vital testing programme. The matter had been raised by Graham Stringer (Lab, Blackley and Broughton) who had politely pointed out that … Read more
An eerie silence suddenly befell Committee Room number six just after 4pm yesterday. Baroness Dido Harding had just explained to the Commons’ science and technology committee how she’d come to be head of our vital testing programme. The matter had been raised by Graham Stringer (Lab, Blackley and Broughton) who had politely pointed out that … Read more