Dear Department of Health (Northern Ireland),

8th January 2021

Michael Mc Bride doing business as Chief Medical officer
Robin Swann doing business as Minister of Health
Castle Buildings
Stormount

Notice to the Principal is Notice to the Agent; Notice to the Agent is notice to the Principal

Notice of Freedom of Information Act 2000 request

Dear Mr McBride and Mr Swann,

Full, accurate and complete disclosure of SARSCOC-2 virus records.

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 samples was not combined with any other source of genetic material (not limited but by way of example monkey kidney cells aka veto cells,. liver cancer cells) thereby eliminating contamination as a possible alternative source of sampling.

Please not 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 detects 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).
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I remind you full, accurate and complete disclosure is required.

Yours faithfully,
Andrea Lockhart