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PHE waited weeks to get help from labs despite lacking coronavirus testing capacity, committee hears

May 22, 2020

She said testing had been stopped in March”because of the sheer scale of cases in the UK, which had been introduced by multiple introductions, particularly after half-term, and from European countries we now know had large amounts of prevalence themselves”. “Contact tracing could not possibly have had the capacity to address that,” she added. “And […]

Oxford University calls for 10,000 volunteers as coronavirus vaccine testing enters next stage

May 22, 2020

Work began in January on the vaccine, which uses a virus taken from chimpanzees and has been developed by the University of Oxford’s Jenner Institute and the Oxford Vaccine Group. The first phase of trialling involved 160 healthy volunteers aged between 18 and...

Care sector says Matt Hancock’s testing expansion comes at expense of staff and residents

May 19, 2020

The body said there were now six separate testing routes available for staff and at least five for residents, with results taking as long as five days to be returned. The care sector incorporates 400,000 people living in care homes and a further 850,000 cared for in...

Dozens of NHS staff allowed to keep working after testing positive for coronavirus in scientific trial

May 13, 2020

Professor James Moon, the chief investigator on the trial, said he had taken part in the study and also did not know whether he had tested positive for coronavirus. He has continued to work at the Nightingale Hospital in London. “We took independent advice from...

Coronavirus antibody testing could result in discrimination at work, ministers warned

May 5, 2020

He said data from around five weeks ago suggested “something like a 10 per cent antibody positivity in London”, with three to four per cent antibody positivity in other regions and even less in some areas. At the current time, he said he would “not...

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