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80% spent on testing apparently, although it does seem like a typo from ‘million’ that has stuck in the contract and no-one has corrected it.
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80% of 37bn is £29,600,000,000.
5 million tests in the last seven days. Let's falsely assume that 5m is the average weekly number of tests over the two year period the test and trace budget covers. That's about 520,000,000 tests. The real figure will be much lower than this unless something goes pear-shaped.
£56 per test, bare mininum. Its quite a lot. I'd like to know how that compares with what other countries are paying.
EDIT, I'm going to revise my figures. 88m covid tests conducted so far. Lets just say that triples by the end of 2021 (it probably won't).
Gives a per test cost of about £112 each.
Stonehedge
How the fuck has Dido Harding spent £37 BILLION on test and trace that doesn't work. That's more than £100,000,000 a day right? Can't even conceive of how that much money can be spent on anything.