Reveal cost of 3.5m unusable Covid-19 tests, health chiefs told
by Michael Savage and Robin McKie from Science | The Guardian on (#521CZ)
Payment was guaranteed for antibody kits designed to show who was immune but they later proved wildly inaccurate
Senior health officials are facing demands to reveal how much has been spent on millions of inaccurate coronavirus antibody tests, after it emerged that payments had been guaranteed even if the kits failed to work.
Public Health England is also being asked todisclose which companies the tests came from and why payment was not made contingent on the tests proving accurate. A formal request for the details is being made in a letter by Greg Clark, the former Conservative cabinet minister and chair of the Commons science and technology committee.
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