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Excel spreadsheet blunder sees thousands of positive Covid-19 tests go missing – TechRadar
Excel spreadsheet holding coronavirus test results reached maximum capacity
A Microsoft Excel spreadsheet error has caused circa 16,000 coronavirus tests to be misplaced in the UK, playing havoc with official figures and contact tracing efforts.
As a result of the blunder, tens of thousands of people that came into contact with coronavirus sufferers were not warned immediately, heightening the likelihood that others were infected unnecessarily by asymptomatic carriers.
The incident meant official infection figures reported on September 30 should have been 3,049 greate…
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