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testing right because essentially, that s our first line of defence with covid. testing is a cornerstone of the government s fight against coronavirus. the most reliable tests are called pcr. thousands of samples every day are sent here to one of the uk s biggest labs, milton keynes. panorama has been told by sources about poor practices at the lab. it s january, and i m going undercover to investigate. hi, how s it going? oh, thank you. i m a science graduate with lab experience. i ve had 4.5 days training and i m being paid £13.57 an hour as a lab technician. right, well, good luck! we re disguising the identities of all the people i m working with. morning! yeah, good. how are you? i start working in what s called the de bagging area. as soon as i start unpacking samples, i notice a number of the tubes they come in leak. the lab has to deal with at least eight different types of tubes. we re supposed to check for leaky ones when we open the bags. we do our best to c ....
now on bbc news, panorama goes undercover inside a lab analysing covid 19 tests, revealing a failing service with staff under pressure, equipment malfunctioning and tests wrongly discarded. my name is jacqui wakefield. i m secretly filming inside one of the largest laboratories testing for coronavirus in the uk. it s made me really angry and there s been times on shift where i ve really had to bite my tongue. my evidence reveals how some people could be getting the wrong result. gasps what you re seeing here is just absolutely crazy. there is almost zero question that this would lead to contamination. the government has spent over £1 billion setting up a network of testing labs, including this one in milton keynes. hi, folks, i m here at the milton keynes mega lab where they re doing the most phenomenal amount of testing. ..but i find frustrated staff losing faith in the system. what do the xs mean? every tube is a person you have to think that way. and probably quit ....
lead to contamination. the government has spent over a billion pounds setting up a network of testing labs, including this one in milton keynes. hi, folks, i m here at the milton keynes mega lab where they re doing the most phenomenal amount of testing. but i find frustrated staff losing faith in the system. every tube is a person. you have to think that way. and probably quite a scared person or worried person. as we begin to return to normal life, can we trust testing to help keep us safe? you just cannot run a service like this. who s in charge here? i m so motivated to go in and really find out what s happening there. it s so important to get testing right because essentially, that s our first line of defence with covid. testing is a cornerstone of the government s fight against coronavirus. the most reliable tests are called pcr. thousands of samples every day are sent here, to one of the uk s biggest labs, milton keynes. panorama has been told by sources about poo ....
the government has spent over £1 billion setting up a network of testing labs, including this one in milton keynes. hi, folks, i m here at the milton keynes mega lab where they re doing the most phenomenal amount of testing. but i find frustrated staff losing faith in the system. what do the xs mean? every tube is a person you have to think that way. and probably quite a scared person or a worried person. as we begin to return to normal life, can we trust testing to help keep us safe? you just cannot run a service like this. who is in charge here? i m so motivated to go in and really find out what s happening there. it s so important to get testing, right, it s so important to get testing right, because essentially, that s our first line of defence with covid. testing is a cornerstone of the government s fight against coronavirus. the most reliable tests are called pcr. thousands of samples every day are sent here to one of the uk s biggest labs, milton keynes. pa ....
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