Covid: how Excel may have caused loss of 16,000 test results in England
by Alex Hern UK technology editor from on (#58TXP)
Public Health England data error blamed on limitations of Microsoft spreadsheet
A million-row limit on Microsoft's Excel spreadsheet software may have led to Public Health England misplacing nearly 16,000 Covid test results, it is understood.
The data error, which led to 15,841 positive tests being left off the official daily figures, means than 50,000 potentially infectious people may have been missed by contact tracers and not told to self-isolate.
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