Am I the only person wondering how the chuff they don't know where the test was done? All they know is that it was 12/13 February (and yet they've left it till now to mention it AGAIN) but no idea where it was. Surely as it was a home test it was posted back and that means that they know which town it was sent back from or an I missing something?
At least they have narrowed it down to the person in question being in one of four possible countries....
As far as I can see the test was done, but the identification of the Brazilian variant took place later amongst thousands of others, the problem is the result was posted to the return address given which is somehow incorrect.
Just been watching Newsnight. Centred on workers at the Bakkavor Salad preparation factory in Kent and implied that a number of employees had refused a test because they were skint and if it came back positive, they couldn't afford to isolate and carried on working regardless. There were nearly seventy positive cases and two employees died before the firm finally introduced sick pay for anyone stricken with the virus.
Menezes entered the tube station at about 10:00 a.m., stopping to pick up a free newspaper. He used his Oyster card to pay the fare, walked through the barriers, and descended the escalator. He then ran across the platform to board the newly arrived train. Menezes boarded the train and found one of the first available seats. Three surveillance officers, codenamed Hotel 1, Hotel 3 and Hotel 9, followed Menezes onto the train. According to Hotel 3, Menezes sat down with a glass panel to his right about two seats in. Hotel 3 then took a seat on the left with about two or three passengers between Menezes and himself. When the firearms officers arrived on the platform, Hotel 3 moved to the door, blocked it from closing with his left foot, and shouted "He's here!" to identify the suspect's location. The firearms officers boarded the train and it was initially claimed they challenged the suspect, though later reports indicate he was not challenged. According to Hotel 3, Menezes then stood up and moved towards the officers and Hotel 3, at which point Hotel 3 grabbed him, pinned his arms against his torso, and pushed him back into the seat. Although Menezes was being restrained, his body was straight and not in a natural sitting position. Hotel 3 heard a shot close to his ear, and was dragged away onto the floor of the carriage. He shouted "Police!" and with hands raised was dragged out of the carriage by one of the armed officers who had boarded the train. Hotel 3 then heard several gunshots while being dragged out. Two officers fired a total of eleven shots according to the number of empty shell casings found on the floor of the train afterwards. Menezes was shot seven times in the head and once in the shoulder at close range and died at the scene. An eyewitness later said that the eleven shots were fired over a thirty-second period, at three-second intervals.A separate witness reported hearing five shots, followed at an interval by several more shots SO19 received training from the SAS. He said the operation was not typical of the police and bore the hallmarks of a special forces operation. chilling stuff the ultimate wrong place at wrong time