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Imagine you’ve been in contact with someone who has Covid. You do the right thing and order a PCR test. You’re relieved when the test comes back negative - and you carry on taking your children to school, going into work or caring for your elderly relatives.

Then, six weeks later, you are contacted by a private testing firm saying you’re at the centre of one of the biggest scandals of the pandemic. You were wrongly told you didn’t have Covid when, actually, you did. Through no fault of your own, the lives of your family, friends and the public have been put in serious danger.

This is the horror story facing 43,000 people who used PCR tests from a private testing firm that the Government assured us was safe. Now, Covid rates in the South West are soaring higher than anywhere else in the country.

This shouldn’t have happened. We have now launched a case against Health Secretary Sajid Javid and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) for failing to prevent this catastrophic mistake. If you are in a position to do so, you can help us fund this case here:

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The scandal-hit lab in Wolverhampton is owned by a company called Immensa. It took the Government weeks to shut down the testing site - when it should have taken days. Shockingly, Immensa is still being allowed to process people’s PCR tests for travel at their lab in Loughborough.

It also transpires that Immensa was never fully accredited to carry out tests, despite the Government previously insisting it was. And somehow, it was awarded a £119m Government contract in September last year without going through the normal tendering process.

Our pre-action protocol letter, the first step in legal proceedings, asks the Health Secretary Sajid Javid to immediately terminate Immensa’s contracts, compensate those affected, and promise to properly regulate private testing firms.

How many more wake-up calls does this Government need before it starts putting people’s safety ahead of private firms’ interests?