A coronavirus super-lab is to be set up in Alderley Park from next week as part of the government’s effort to scale up testing nationally.
The 24/7 hub has been set up at ‘unprecedented pace’, according to those involved, and will collect samples from across the country in a bid to allow frontline staff back to work.
Scientists and other experts from across the region are volunteering to get the lab working as fast as possible, as ministers aim for 100,000 tests a day by the end of the month.
The Cheshire lab, which is one of three agreed last week by the government - alongside one in Milton Keynes and another in Glasgow - is being set up by Bruntwood’s Medicines Discovery Catapult, a national drugs research and development facility that is