Staff in Somerset hospital wrongly told 27 patients they had coronavirus

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HOSPITAL chiefs wrongly told 27 patients they had coronavirus. Another 147 are being contacted over the error that emerged after lab staff noticed a testing machine was ­giving a high number of pos…

Foundation Trust apologised to those affected.

Chief Medical Officer, Dr Daniel Meron, said: "On Thursday June 4th one of our managers noticed an unusual increase in the number of"We moved quickly to retest those swabs on a second machine. This showed that the analyser had reported some false positive results.

"We want to understand the impact this may have had on them, to offer them subsequent testing and to say how sorry we are.CORONAVIRUS CRISIS - STAY IN THE KNOWTo receive The Sun’s Coronavirus newsletter in your inbox every tea time,

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