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Nearly 43,000 people may have gotten false negative Covid results in UK: Health officials

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England, British health officials said on Friday that nearly 43,000 people may have been given a false negative Covid-19 test result due to problems at a private laboratory.

The UK Health Security Agency said the Immensa Health Clinic Ltd. lab in Wolverhampton, central England, has been suspended from processing swabs after the false negatives.

Will Welfare, the agency's public health incident director, said it was working “to determine the laboratory technical issues" behind the inaccurate tests.

The issue was uncovered after some people who were positive for Covid-19 when they took rapid tests went on to show up as negative on more accurate PCR tests.

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