(ANSA) - LONDON, OCTOBER 15 - The British public health authorities have launched an investigation into a laboratory in Wolverhampton, England, suspected of having provided the wrong results to 43,000 people who had undergone a Covid molecular test. This was announced by the testing and tracing service of the national health system (NHS), evoking a possible "technical" problem behind the incident. Collaboration with the laboratory in question - one of many cooperating with the NHS in the UK on the pandemic front - has been suspended for now, while contacts have been initiated to warn all patients involved of the possible error.
The suspicions arose after numerous people, who tested positive in the test of the do-it-yourself antigen test, were then declared negative: and all after their samples had been analyzed by this specific laboratory.
Andrea Riposati, managing director of clear Italian origins of the company that controls the facility in question, the Immensa Health Clinic, ensured maximum cooperation with the investigation.
"We are proud to have examined 2.5 million samples on behalf of the test and tracing service since the start of the pandemic and we do not want this or any other event to be a stain on the work done," he said.
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