📋 Tender Overview
The rapid creation of 3 new Lighthouse Labs in Milton Keynes Glasgow and Alderley Park in Cheshire is increasing the countrys capacity to test for coronavirus with each site scaling up to test tens of thousands of patient samples each day.Each individual site took just 3 weeks to complete and begin testing. The new mega-labs are staffed by an army of highly qualified staff and volunteers from industry and academia drawn from across the country.These groups are working tirelessly to rapidly analyse coronavirus tests for NHS social care and other frontline workers allowing those testing negative to safely and quickly return to work.The Lighthouse Labs will test samples from drive through testing sites with new sites set up nearly each day across the UK. Work is ongoing to set up 50 of these drive-through sites and there are now 27 in operation including in Wembley Manchester and Glasgow.Thanks to increased testing capacity the government is extending testing to a wider group of frontline workers in addition to patients NHS or social care workers who need one. Frontline workers who are eligible have symptoms of coronavirus a high temperature or new continuous cough and would like to be tested should speak to their employer.
