The relatively poor performance of the 30-minute tests in real-world settings where people swab themselves, compared with lab conditions, is dividing opinion over the wisdom of the government’s investment. The Department of Health has now secured authorisation for this sort of test to be used for self-testing at home.
While Moonshot has fallen well short of its target of testing 10 million people a day by early 2021, the Innova tests were used to mass-test the city of Liverpool and are now being offered to NHS staff, visitors to care homes, teachers and students. More than 380m Innova tests have been bought so far by the UK government, but now a fierce debate is raging among scientists about how they should be used.
Innova Medical Group is now believed to be the largest single recipient of payments from UK government contracts during the pandemic.
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