Immensa Labs, in Wolverhampton, is estimated to have sent out 43,000 false negative test results.
For almost a month last year a coronavirus testing lab in Wolverhampton sent out thousands of incorrect results telling people they were clear when in fact they were infected.
People such as Pam Bembenek. She caught coronavirus on 18 October 2021, which was actually after testing was officially halted at Immensa. The BBC has been told the incorrect results were sent out between 8 September and 12 October 2021. That's more than 30 days before the mistake was noticed and Immensa Labs was told to stop.
That would have stopped thousands of incorrect results being sent out. It would certainly have been in time to save Mrs Bembenek's life.He's been updating more than 5,000 group members with the latest on the virus since the pandemic started. The local community, the people on his Facebook group and beyond, were really interested in what he was saying.
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