In the UK 1.3 Million Coronavirus Test Results Have Been Removed from Official Figures because “They Had Been Double Counted”
September 5, 2020
According to a Daily Mail report (August 14) the British authorities have been involved in the practice of “double-counting” the official RT-PCR test results. It is presented as an unfortunate error or mistake:
“Ministers have quietly wiped 1.3million Covid-19 swabs off the official testing count, it emerged today.
Number 10 has repeatedly boasted about the number of tests it is capable of doing – with capacity now reportedly at around 340,000 per day.
But the government has now admitted a staggering one in 10 coronavirus tests were counted twice.
“And today it emerged 1.3 million counted (RT-PCR) tests have been removed from the official government total because they were counted twice.
In a statement on the website … the Department said: ‘An adjustment of -1,308,071 has been made to the historic data for the “tests made available” metric.”
‘The adjustments have been made as a result of more accurate data collection and reporting processes recently being adopted within pillar 2.’
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