cases yet to be reached to ask for their close contacts. Answering questions in the Commons, the health secretary repeatedly refused to confirm the blunder was caused by an extraordinary failure to create spreadsheets large enough for all results.
Matt Hancock admitted yesterday that the fiasco over 16,000 missing Covid-19 positive test results is “ongoing”, with nearly half of
The rate of new Covid-19 cases has now soared in many areas, including in Manchester – where 2,740 cases were recorded in the seven days to the start of this month, or 495.6 per 100,000 people, up from 223.2 per 100,000 in the previous week.