Covid testing failures at UK lab ‘should have been flagged within days’
by Ian Sample Science editor from Science | The Guardian on (#5R1XX)
Senior scientists say problems at Immensa site show private firms should not be carrying out PCR tests
Health officials should have known about major failings at a private Covid testing lab within days of the problem arising, rather than taking weeks to shut down operations at the site, senior scientists say.
About 43,000 people, mostly in south-west England, are believed to have wrongly been told they did not have the virus by Immensa Health Clinic's laboratory in Wolverhampton in a debacle described as one of the worst scandals in the UK's Covid crisis.
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