NHS coronavirus tracing app problem that left tens of thousands of tests unlogged has been fixed, government says
"If your test took place in a Public Health England lab or NHS hospital, or as part of national surveillance testing conducted by the Office for National Statistics, test results cannot currently be linked with the app whether they're positive or negative," they wrote.show a total of 210,275 people were tested in England on Friday, including 61,481 in hospitals and PHE labs and 148,894 in testing centres .
An earlier statement from the Department of Health said:"We are urgently working to enable positive tests for people who aren't already given a code to be added to the COVID-19 app. "If you book your test via the app the results will be automatically recorded in the app and the isolation countdown will be updated."Labour's Jonathan Ashworth had raised the issue on social media.
"But have they really launched an app that doesn't actually link to tests carried out by NHS hospital labs & PHE labs instead only including tests carried out via the outsourced lighthouse lab network??"
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