England's government agency responsible for responding to public health emergencies said mistakes at a testing laboratory resulted in tens of thousands of positive Covid-19 cases reported as negative may have led to the deaths of 20 people.
police it. so by removing this clause they think it will give this bill a fair clause they think it will give this billa fairwind and clause they think it will give this bill a fair wind and has a chance of passing through parliament pretty soon. ~ ., ~ passing through parliament pretty soon. ~ ., ~ , soon. ben wright, thank you very much. speaking earlier, the chief executive of the essay, jenny harris, explained how they identified the errors in the immensa covid 19 test results. i v e i ve looked at the incident and try to imagine if i was a member of this community i would want to know what my true test result was. what we have been trying to do for several months now is get a reanalysis of tests. but having failed to achieve that, we are still trying. we have tried to do is take the right
of health, say they have followed independent pay review body recommendations. in scotland, talks are under way over a higher offer and one union has recommended acceptance. and one union has recommended acceptance- and one union has recommended accetance. , ., ,, , ., staff mistakes in a private laboratory may have caused 23 extra deaths from covid 19. the uk health security agency made the claim in a report into errors at the immensa lab in wolverhampton. it says as many as 39,000 positive results were wrongly reported as negative in september and october 2021. the mistakes led to increased numbers of admissions and deaths , the report concluded. thousands of people, many in the southwest, were wrongly told to stop testing after their results were processed by immensa. a man has been arrested in gloucestershire with in connection with the deaths of at least 27 people who drowned trying to cross the english channel in a dinghy in november last year. the 32 year old is infused in inv
got these e mails. it was another week before the uk health security agency announced that tens of thousands may have received these false negative results from the lab in wolverhampton. it dealt mainly with people from the west and the south west. and that led to this detailed investigation into the errors that took place between the 7th of september and the 12th of october last year. it concluded that immensa had set the threshold levels for tests incorrectly. so too many came back negative. in total, 39,000 pcr tests got the wrong result and it is estimated that led to 55,000 additional infections, 684 people needing to be sent to hospital and it is thought these 23 deaths from covid. at the time when the nhs was incredibly in demand, another 624 patients using those services, i am sure that would have had a knock on
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