The Queen has made her first official visit since the coronavirus pandemic began, travelling to Salisbury to open a new facility at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Porton Down.

The Queen, accompanied by Prince William, officially opened Dstl’s new £30 million Energetics Analysis Centre, which deals in counter-terrorism.

Medical diagnostics company Presymptom Health has secured £200,000 of seed funding to develop a test that can predict whether coronavirus patients will develop sepsis before symptoms appear.

The funding has come from Ploughshare Innovations, the technology transfer office for the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). Both companies are based at Wiltshire Council’s Porton Science Park near Salisbury.