Excel spreadsheet blamed for UK’s COVID-19 test and trace woes
pharmaphorum
OCTOBER 6, 2020
An Excel spreadsheet was behind IT glitch that caused thousands of positive COVID-19 tests to be omitted from the UK’s official records, according to press reports. The issue that left almost 16,000 positive results going unreported has been blamed on the way Public Health England tracks results from mainly private labs that have been hired to add extra testing capacity.
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