.@michaelgove said just now that the difficulty in increasing number of #COVID19 tests was due to a shortage of the relevant "chemcial reagents". Well I've just talked to the Chemical Industries Association, which represents the UK's very substantial chemicals industry. It...
Hi Robert, the 'chemicals' the government are likely referring to are things like one step reverse transcriptase quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) reagents, and RNA extraction kits/reagents. These are in short supply globally.