So government source says - which is true - that there is a global shortage of the reagent. As it happens @CMO_England said this a couple of weeks ago, as has head of CDC in US. But that still doesn't explain why Chemicals Industry Assoc thinks its members, could help find...
a solution if asked by the government. And it also doesn't explain - as I pointed out in a PM press conference earlier in the month - why the government didn't forward plan by buying stocks of ingredients for the testing kits weeks ago, before demand from rich countries soared
The point is that if the government is thinking out of the box for the manufacture of ventilators, potentially place huge orders with the likes of F1's McLaren, Mercedes and Dyson, why not do the same for #Covid19 tests?
