Testing right because essentially, thats our first line of defence with covid. Testing is a cornerstone of the governments fight against coronavirus. The most reliable tests are called pcr. Thousands of samples every day are sent here to one of the uks biggest labs, Milton Keynes. Panorama has been told by sources about poor practices at the lab. Its january, and im going undercover to investigate. Hi, hows it going . Oh, thank you. Im a science graduate with lab experience. Ive had 4. 5 days training and im being paid £13. 57 an hour as a lab technician. Right, well, good luck were disguising the identities of all the people im working with. Morning yeah, good. How are you . I start working in whats 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. Were supposed to check for leaky ones when we open the bags. We do our best to clean up the leaks to try to
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. Im secretly filming inside one of the largest laboratories testing for coronavirus in the uk. Its made me really angry and theres been times on shift where ive really had to bite my tongue. My evidence reveals how some people could be getting the wrong result. Gasps what youre 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, im here at the Milton Keynes mega lab where theyre 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 wor
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