NEW: Today, news broke that Immensa, subsidiary of Dante, may have supplied 43,000 incorrect test results between 8th September and 12th October at their clinic in Wolverhampton. THREAD:
news.sky.com/story/covid-19…
As first reported in the @BylineTimes, Immensa were granted a £119m testing contract, without tender, when the firm had only been in existence for 4 months.

In total, Immensa won two Covid-related contracts, totalling over £169.4m:
NHS Test & Trace announced that they were suspending testing operations at the Immensa Wolverhampton clinic following the "vast majority" of results coming back as negative:
gov.uk/government/new…
The revelations follow evidence of gross misconduct at Immensa facilities, in which sources claim misconduct of staff "put lives at risk".

Staff were seen to be play-fighting, "drinking Jagermeister on duty", and sleeping on the job:
thesun.co.uk/news/13900590/…
Antics like this could well go some way to explaining the recent CMA decision to launch a formal investigation into Dante, which has been accused of refusing refunds, not delivering test results either on time or at all, and ignoring customer complaints:
gov.uk/government/new…
The problems with Dante didn't start with the pandemic either, which might lead some to speculate as to why they were given responsibility to analyse "more than 2.5m samples for NHS Test and Trace"
In 2018 they they made headlines for sending customers used tests containing other people's saliva...
cnbc.com/2018/06/15/dan…

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14 Oct
🚨BREAKING: Private Covid testing company Dante Labs appears to have been using lax data privacy laws in order to advertise its genomic sequencing services to customers. THREAD:
Hundreds of companies have been making money from the huge private Covid-19 travel testing industry created by the UK government. Among these, some companies also offer DNA sequencing which offers ‘insights into your health, life and risk for hereditary disease’.
Dante Labs owns Immensa Health, which has been awarded £169,435,000 in two contracts for PCR testing of Covid-19 samples by the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).
contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/notice/b608182…
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12 Oct
NEW: 🚨'Cabinet policy obliges ministers to delete WhatsApp messages'

Great report by @Haroon_Siddique in @guardian on our legal victory today & the shocking new evidence we revealed in court

With @Foxglovelegal

theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
What we were able to reveal to today is that it's actually Cabinet Office policy to insist ministers & advisors set their message apps to automatically delete.

The government is literally shredding its records in real time.
We would have *literally no idea* of this secret govt policy if we hadn't brought this case.

The Cabinet Office is an FOI black hole. The only reason we now know about this message deletion policy is because it was forced to reveal it in the course of this legal claim
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BREAKING: We have won permission to have our case heard in the high court!

We are THRILLED. Thank you to everyone who has supported this vital case & to our partners @Foxglovelegal
A comment from Clara Maguire, director of the Citizens:

‘This is a good day for democracy’
Thank you so much to everyone who’s helped us get this far. The fight is now on for the next stage. 👊👊👊

crowdjustice.com/case/stop-disa…
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12 Oct
🔴The shocking findings of the Parliamentary #COVIDReport make it clear: scrutiny of the government could not be more important.

This is why TODAY @allthecitizens and @Foxglovelegal are in court to stop the use of disappearing messages apps in government.
In June 2021, a source at @DHSC told @BylineTimes that conversations between Public Health England and DHSC officials about whether or not patients should be
discharged from hospital into care homes without a negative test were taking place over WhatsApp.
bit.ly/2YE9Ccl
🔥🔥The source added: “The entire COVID-19 response was being conducted over WhatsApp messages.”🔥🔥

@NafeezAhmed via @BylineTimes
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12 Oct
🚨BREAKING: an investigation by @BylineBITE and @allthecitizens reveals 12 Covid-contract winning firms tied to the Conservative Party have increased their profits by £121.7 million over the last year, an increase of 57%. THREAD:
It’s now been 18 months since @BylineTimes and @TheCitizens began mapping the multi-million pound Covid-19 crony contract scandal, uncovering £1bn in taxpayer funds being awarded to companies owned by Conservative Party donors:
bylinetimes.com/2021/03/29/map…
A further £2bn was awarded to associates of the Tory Party - ex-councillors, SPADs and advisors, or friends and relatives of politicians:
bylinetimes.com/2021/03/31/map…
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11 Oct
🔴We firmly believe in holding power to account.

This is why, with @Foxglovelegal, we are taking legal action to stop the use of disappearing message apps in government.

The hearing is tomorrow.
.@thetimes reported that more than a third of Johnson’s cabinet have downloaded Signal. That includes: #BorisJohnson, #RishiSunak, #PritiPatel, #MichaelGove, Grant Shapps, Robert Jenrick, Gavin Williamson, Robert Buckland and Brandon Lewis.

thetimes.co.uk/article/boris-…
Vital evidence of government decision making is being lost to the disappearing text. That could include evidence about Brexit, the Covid response, or a political crony lobbying for government contracts.

Ask for accountability. Sign our petition
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