Published:
7:00 AM January 11, 2021
L-R: James Wayland, Jonathan Allard and Joshua Button from LDE UTC designed and manufactured 300 of the vital racks.
- Credit: LDE UTC
A potential threat to rapid Covid-19 testing in Newham has been overcome thanks to the town hall, a technical college and test tube racks.
Newham public health teams had found themselves frustrated by an inability to source and acquire racks which are vital in testing centres.
Anything hindering the delivery of rapid testing affects efforts to get on top of infection rates.
But a conversation between the principal of London Design and Engineering University Technical College (LDE UTC) in University Way, Royal Docks, and a town hall public health officer led to an amazing solution.