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Dear Mr Horn,

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From: Marc Horn <[3][FOI #679708 email]>
Sent: 25 July 2020 14:40
To: HL External Communications Office <[4][email address]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Full, accurate and complete
disclosure of SARS-COV-2 virus records

Dear House of Lords,

Please provide a full, accurate and complete list of records held within
your office, and or under your authority, describing the isolation of a
SARS-COV-2 virus, directly taken from a symptomatic patient of COVID-19
where the sample was not first combined with any other source of genetic
material (not limited but by way of example monkey kidney cells, aka vero
cells, liver cancer cells) thereby eliminating contamination as a possible
alternative source of sampling.
Please note isolation is used in the normally understood meaning of the
word – the act of separating a thing from another. I am not referring, and
hence not requesting, to isolation meaning the culture of something else,
the performance of an amplification test (eg PCR test which only detect
mRNA or DNA) or the sequencing of “something”.
If any records match the above description and are available to the public
elsewhere, please provide enough information so that I may identify and
access each record with certainty (i.e. title, author(s), date, journal,
and weblink or location where the public may access it).
I remind you full, accurate and complete disclosure is required.

Yours faithfully,

Marc Horn

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