‘We Need Your COVID-19 Testing Capacity’ UK Health Secretary Tells Life Science Firms
Executive Summary
The UK has an “excellent but small diagnostics industry,” so it needs further testing support from related life science industries to tackle the COVID-19 crisis. One of the outcomes of this could be the creation of new big diagnostics industry players.
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