RNS Number:9234M
Osmetech PLC
30 June 2003

                                  Osmetech plc

  Notification of Preliminary Results / Update on SARS-related Sales to China



Osmetech plc, the developer of medical diagnostics devices, will be announcing
its preliminary results for the twelve months ended 30 April 2003 on Wednesday
30 July 2003.

On 29 April 2003 Osmetech announced that it had secured initial sales orders in
excess of $700,000 for Osmetech OPTI blood gas analyser instruments and
consumables to customers in China in its first month of ownership following
acquisition of the product line.

OPTI portable instruments incorporate optical sensors for blood gas, electrolyte
and metabolite analysis and can aid in the monitoring of the treatment of severe
acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

Further orders from China have since been received and shipped bringing the
total to approximately $1,500,000, principally comprising instrument sales. This
increases the installed base of instruments in use throughout the world from
which future reagent sales will flow.



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Bell Pottinger Financial
Matthew Moth                020 7861 3882
Charles Reynolds            020 7861 3871



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