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Why not use on-Island genomics testing, asks MHK
If specialist genomics testing is available on Island, why not use it?
That s the view of Onchan MHK Julie Edge, who wants a statement from the Chief Minister on the decision to use a UK lab to determine what strains of coronavirus are on the Island.
Dr Rachel Glover of Taxa Genomics offered to turn around samples in 48 hours after a Liverpool laboratory took several days to analyse positive cases from the New Year period.
Ms Edge, who has an emergency question on the subject in Tynwald today, says the public needs an explanation:
Dr Rachel Glover of Taxa Genomics -
It is ’business as usual’ at the Covid-19 testing lab despite a private sector partner pulling out, insists Health Minister David Ashford.
Dr Rachel Glover, who was instrumental in setting up the island’s Covid testing lab, announced on Twitter that her Taxagenomics company would no longer be involved.
She had previously resigned from her role within the lab over disagreements with the government’s Covid testing policy.
Taxagenomics supplied testing reagents for the lab.
The Health Minister said the decision ’changes nothing in relation to testing’.
He said: ’It is business as usual. There is no reduction in testing capacity.’