Twenty people out of a 70-person lab team in the United Kingdom are in quarantine after a COVID outbreak in lab employees. Not only that, they have positive cases in 3 of 4 teams where they process 70,000 tests a day.
An anonymous lab worker told news sources they are concerned about lab safety, too: Workers are under such a strain, working 12-hour shifts, that they are breaking rules to meet targets. In October, inspectors found five “material breaches” of health and safety regulations.
SOURCE: Sky News December 25, 2020