Mistakes at UK coronavirus testing lab may have led to 20 deaths

COVID testing lab in England mistakenly marked tens of thousands of positive tests as negative

England's government agency responsible for responding to public health emergencies said mistakes at a testing laboratory resulted in tens of thousands of positive COVID-19 cases reported as negative may have led to the deaths of 20 people.

英國負(fù)責(zé)應(yīng)對突發(fā)公共衛(wèi)生事件的政府機構(gòu)表示，一家檢測實驗室的錯誤導(dǎo)致數(shù)萬例新冠陽性病例報告為陰性，可能導(dǎo)致20人死亡。

Britain has one of the highest coronavirus death tolls in the world, with more than 177,000 deaths since the pandemic started in 2020.

自2020年大流行開始以來，英國是世界上新冠病毒死亡人數(shù)最高的國家之一，死亡人數(shù)超過17.7萬。

An investigation by the UK's Health Security Agency found the Immensa laboratory in central England, was found to have misreported around 39,000 tests as negative when they should have been positive between Sept. 2 and Oct. 12 last year.

英國衛(wèi)生安全局的一項調(diào)查發(fā)現(xiàn)，在去年9月2日至10月12日期間，英格蘭中部的龐殷薩實驗室誤報了約3.9萬份檢測結(jié)果為陰性，而這些檢測結(jié)果本應(yīng)呈陽性。

"Through this investigation we have looked carefully at the arrangements in place for overseeing contracts of private labs providing surge testing during this time," said Richard Gleave,?UKHSA?director and lead investigator.

UKHSA主管兼首席調(diào)查員Richard Gleave表示:“通過此次調(diào)查，我們仔細(xì)審查了在此期間為激增的核酸檢測需求提供服務(wù)的私立實驗室的監(jiān)管合同的各項落實情況。”

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) ：英國健康安全研究所

"It is our view that there was no single action that NHS Test and Trace could have taken differently to prevent this error arising in the private laboratory. However, our report sets out clear recommendations to both reduce the risk of incidents like this happening again."

“我們的觀點是，NHS檢測和追蹤系統(tǒng)沒有采取任何單獨的行動來防止私人實驗室出現(xiàn)這種錯誤。然而，我們的報告提出了明確的建議，以減少此類事件再次發(fā)生的風(fēng)險?！?/span>

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