Mistake at Immensa Health Clinic Ltd lab in Wolverhampton led to 39,000 tests wrongly labelled negative
At least 23 deaths might have been caused by a blunder at a privately run laboratory after thousands of positive Covid cases were reported as negative, public health experts have estimated.
The government awarded Immensa a £119m contract in October 2020 to urgently “develop volume for PCR testing for Covid in line with test and trace requirements”.The UK Health Security Agency has estimated that the oversight led to about 55,000 additional infections, about 680 additional hospital admissions and 23 additional deaths.
An investigation, conducted by the UKHSA, concluded the error occurred because staff at the lab set the threshold levels for reporting positive and negative results incorrectly. “It is our view that there was no single action that NHS test and trace could have taken differently to prevent this error arising in the private laboratory.
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