Yourgene Health (LON: YGEN) — the molecular diagnostics company — said Thursday that it has been awarded a contract by the Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC).
The contract is to provide laboratory capacity to support the “winter surge” Covid-19 testing in light of the Omicron variant.
This is Yourgene's third DHSC contract this year under the Public Health England National Microbiology Framework Agreement.
The prior two awards were for Covid-19 PCR surge testing, which was announced on August 19, and the latest UKHSA sequencing contract, which was announced on December 14.
Lyn Rees, Chief Executive Officer, commented: “This is another strong endorsement of our progress and we are pleased to be able to support the nation's COVID testing effort. Actual value for this contract will depend on the services purchased, with no committed spend at this moment in time, but we look forward to updating shareholders on the progress over time.”
Yourgene Health shares are currently up just under 9% to 13.35p, hitting a high of 13.58p at the start of the session.
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