London, Oct 5 : Nearly 16,000 daily coronavirus cases went unreported in the UK due to a technical glitch, leading to delayed efforts to trace contacts of people who tested positive, Public Health England (PHE) said on Monday.
In a statement, PHE said that 15,841 cases between September 25 and October 2 were left out of the country’s single-day case figures, the BBC reported.
They were then added in to reach the October 3 figure of 12,872 new cases and the following day’s 22,961.
The glitch, which occurred on October 2 has since been been resolved, also meants that the daily count reported on the government’s coronavirus dashboard over the past week was lower than the actual number.
In the statement, PHE’s interim chief executive Michael Brodie said the glitch was caused by some data files reporting positive test results exceeding the maximum file size.
He said they worked with NHS Test and Trace to “quickly resolve the issue and transferred all outstanding cases immediately into the NHS Test and Trace contact tracing system”.
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