Arkitect
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Some more news from merry ol' England; the green and pleasant land of promised unicorns, sunlit uplands, forelock tugging voters, fox hunting nobs and prison ships for refugees…
Guardian
"The government is unaware of how many potentially infectious contacts of coronavirus patients were not traced after it was revealed that nearly 16,000 Covid cases went unreported in England, a minister has said.
“I’m afraid I just don’t have that information,” Thérèse Coffey, the work and pensions secretary, told BBC1’s Breakfast programme.
Labour has called the error, blamed on computing problems, “shambolic”. The health secretary, Matt Hancock, was expected to make a statement to the Commons later on Monday.
The failure resulted in 15,841 positive test results being left out of Public Health England’s daily figures between 25 September and 2 October, meaning 22,961 cases were published on Sunday, after 12,872 on Saturday.
The error also meant the information was not passed on to data dashboards used for contact tracing, PHE said.
Coffey said it was not yet known how many people as a result had not been contacted to be told they should self-isolate after coming into close contact with one of the unreported positive cases."
To put it in perspective:15,841 is more than Germany, a country of 83,000,000, has in a week! And we somehow mislaid them… fell off a desk somewhere?
Well done Tories, well done… this is exactly how you manage a global epidemic that has laid waste to your economy and taken the lives of thousands.
Guardian
"The government is unaware of how many potentially infectious contacts of coronavirus patients were not traced after it was revealed that nearly 16,000 Covid cases went unreported in England, a minister has said.
“I’m afraid I just don’t have that information,” Thérèse Coffey, the work and pensions secretary, told BBC1’s Breakfast programme.
Labour has called the error, blamed on computing problems, “shambolic”. The health secretary, Matt Hancock, was expected to make a statement to the Commons later on Monday.
The failure resulted in 15,841 positive test results being left out of Public Health England’s daily figures between 25 September and 2 October, meaning 22,961 cases were published on Sunday, after 12,872 on Saturday.
The error also meant the information was not passed on to data dashboards used for contact tracing, PHE said.
Coffey said it was not yet known how many people as a result had not been contacted to be told they should self-isolate after coming into close contact with one of the unreported positive cases."
To put it in perspective:15,841 is more than Germany, a country of 83,000,000, has in a week! And we somehow mislaid them… fell off a desk somewhere?
Well done Tories, well done… this is exactly how you manage a global epidemic that has laid waste to your economy and taken the lives of thousands.
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