Gloucestershire politicians write to the UK Health Security Agency over Covid lab testing failings.
"The fact is that there were people going around in Cheltenham and Gloucestershire with this illness without knowing about it, and it's not enough to wait months and months and months for some investigation to report."
Issues at the laboratory emerged when people who had tested positive with lateral flow tests subsequently had negative PCR results from the lab between 8 September and 12 October. It is thought that about 43,000 people in England and Wales may have been wrongly told their Covid-19 test was negative. The error could mean thousands of people infected with Covid were wrongly told to stop isolating, and may have infected others.'Fully collaborating'Speaking to the BBC in October, Prof Alan McNally, from the University of Birmingham, said he was "astonished" by the revelation."I cannot fathom the failings that would lead to this level of false negative results."
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