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April 1, 2020

Call for small UK labs to embrace Dunkirk spirit and produce Covid-19 tests

Veteran UK entrepreneur Mike Fischer calls on small labs to help provide a collective 100,000+ tests a week for front-line healthcare staff.


Maija Palmer

4 min read

Photo by Louis Reed on Unsplash

Dunkirk involved the rescue of British soldiers from French beaches by a flotilla of "little ships" — pleasure boats and fishing vessels — during the Second World War. Now the UK's "little labs" are being asked to come to the rescue of front-line health workers by helping to massively ramp up the country's ability to test for Covid-19.

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