The announcement comes as a further 22,961 lab-confirmed cases of the coronavirus are recorded in the UK.
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"All the people who had a positive test have now been notified and I think the data that we have is realistic, and again it's very useful in helping us to identify you know where the incidence is and what we need to do to tackle it," he said in an interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr Show. Northern Ireland secretary Brandon Lewis said the revisions were evidence of the government and NHS Test and Trace being"transparent" about the testing numbers.
He told Sophy Ridge on Sunday:"As soon as they've spotted there was an issue, they've dug into that, they've got to the bottom of those numbers, they have been transparent and published the correct numbers and of course the teams will be looking through that to ensure it doesn't happen again." PHE provided a breakdown of how many cases were not included in each day's figures, which are as follows:744 on September 26, when the original figure given was 6,042None on September 28, when the original figure given was 4,0443,049 on September 30, when the original figure given was 7,1084,786 on October 2, when the original figure given was 6,968
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