Demand for workspace rapid Covid tests jumps as offices prepare to reopen
Demand for workspace Covid tests has increased as businesses, spurred on by the government s roadmap, prepare to open. (Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)
Diagnostics company Excalibur Healthcare, which provide fast-acting lateral flow tests, said demand had increased for its test and it had seen a surge in calls from companies wanting to implement workplace testing regimes.
Excalibur sold hundreds of thousands of lateral flow tests in the seven days after Boris Johnson announced his roadmap out of lockdown.
Excalibur’s chief executive and founder Sir Chris Evans said: “We have new firms contacting us and are adding new customers every single week or day. Everybody now realises they will need to test. They are desperate and as soon as they can open up, they will.”