More than 20 people may have died as a result of errors at the Wolverhampton Covid testing laboratory last year which caused thousands of false negative results
More than 20 people may have died as a result of errors at the Immensa covid testing laboratory last year which caused thousands of false negative results, a report by the UK Health Security Agency has found.
The UKHSA carried out a “serious untoward incident” investigation after nearly 40,000 PCR tests produced false negatives, following positive lateral flow results. Immensa was a private laboratory which had won a contract with NHS Test and Trace to process PCR tests. Their operations were suspended after the incident was spotted in October last year, following local reports of people receiving false negative results after initially testing positive.
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