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Covid-19 testing scientist hits out at government

Dr Glover not consulted on testing report

The leading scientist at the Island's Covid-19 testing lab says she was "dissed" by the chief minister at Friday's media conference.

In a series of tweets, Dr Rachel Glover has revealed she has not been asked to contribute to a document on the testing regime being prepared for the council of ministers.

In one tweet she wrote "I sit in a grey area as I'm both a DHSC employee AND a private company director. They need my skills but given I have no voice internally I use twitter to voice my opinion, which is disliked."

This is what Howard Quayle said when asked why Dr Glover was not involved in producing the report:

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