Today Sajid Javid officially opened the new Rosalind Franklin megalab in Leamington Spa. It is the largest testing lab in the UK & has already begun processing 1000s of COVID-19 tests a day. The lab will support the UKHSA to help prevent & respond to public health threats.
Today @sajidjavid officially opened the new Rosalind Franklin megalab in Leamington Spa.
It is the largest testing lab in the UK & has already begun processing 1000s of COVID-19 tests a day.
The lab will support the UKHSA to help prevent & respond to public health threats. pic.twitter.com/gYw0zBziLD
— Department of Health and Social Care (@DHSCgovuk) August 12, 2021
The megalab forms part of the new UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).. The technology will include automation, robotics and LGC EndPoint PCR (EPCR) testing workflow for COVID-19, which can process up to 150,000 tests each day.
“The pandemic has provided us with clear evidence, on a daily basis, that you can only challenge viruses of this kind with the right testing and genomics infrastructure in place.” .. The UK is already in a good position and viral genome sequencing and the industrialisation of this process bodes well for when the next pandemic appears.”
www.healthcareitnews.com/news/emea/uks-first-megalab-opens-leamington-spa-bolster-covid-19-testing
This is a whole new mega-industry forming. We’re never going back to living without medical interventions – except those of us who are off-grid, like the “savages” in Brave New World, which is coming true before our eyes.
h/t Tess