World s biggest Covid test maker to open Wales factory
Innova wants to bring manufacturing of Covid tests to the UK from China
25 May 2021 • 3:58pm
The UK is on track to become a world leader in Covid testing after US diagnostic company Innova
unveiled plans to begin manufacturing lateral flow tests in South Wales.
The company is the biggest supplier of lateral flow tests to the UK and will start manufacturing millions of tests a day at a plant in Wales this summer, according to the
Financial Times.
The tests will be made for the domestic market and export, Daniel Elliott, chief executive of California-based Innova, told the
Liverpool Covid vaccine trials saw thousands flock to take part
One coronavirus trial at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine was over-subscribed 20 times over
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (Image: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine)
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Clinical trials held in Liverpool for Covid vaccines were the most easily recruited in the whole of the UK, with some tests over-subscribed up to 20 times over, new figures reveal.
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Whitehall sources have told Channel 4 News that a plan to send surplus PPE to India was delayed as the Treasury insisted the items would have to count towards overall aid spending – recently capped at 0.5 per cent of national income down from the 0.7, which had been the decades old standard.
A government source has confirmed that £813 million donated to provide coronavirus vaccines and other tools for the developing world also forms part of the overseas aid budget, known as Official Development Assistance (ODA).
By designating money and equipment donated to poorer countries as ODA, the UK government must squeeze other aid spending to stay within the 0.5 per cent of Gross National Income limit imposed by the chancellor last year.
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