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Paul Burr, director of Biobest, part of VetPartners, said his Edinburgh-based diagnostics lab could perform in the region of 2000 PCR tests a week to determine whether individuals were infected with the virus, or 2000 antibody tests to detect whether they had antibodies Martin Squires, a vet from Cumbria, has written to his constituency MP Neil Hudson, an equine vet turned Conservative politician, to ask whether the government had put together a list of all UK human and animal testing facilities that could be mobilised as part of a mass testing programme [ ]in a question for a government science adviser at a virtual briefing for members of the House of Lords this week, Lord Trees, a crossbench peer and Vet Record’s chief veterinary adviser, asked: ‘Why has it taken so long for Public Health England to accept help with testing from industry and academia, such as in my own field of veterinary science?’ Vet laboratories are in an excellent position to offer their expertise The BVA is also keen for the veterinary profession to do all it can to control the Covid-19 outbreak
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