Middlesbrough council withheld details of outlay on unusable Covid tests
by Alex Mistlin from on (#5E6BF)
Mayor Andy Preston disregarded advice from director of public health and ordered pinprick antibody tests
Middlesbrough council withheld potentially embarrassing details of how - against the advice of its own public health expert - it ordered 24,000 worth of Covid tests that it could not use, emails reveal.
The independent mayor of Middlesbrough, Andy Preston, spent 24,000 on pinprick antibody tests, disregarding concerns voiced by the region's director of public health, according to documents released under Freedom of Information laws.
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