This means that the U.K.’s infection numbers from last week were significantly higher than what was originally reported. For example, the figure for Sept. 31 increased from 6,914 new cases to 11,057, and the figure for Oct. 2 increased from 6,968 new cases to 11,754 new cases. Most importantly, this means that all those additional people who tested positive were not informed and therefore did not know whether or not they should self-isolate.
According to a spokesperson from Public Health England, the government organization in charge of collecting and reporting coronavirus case data, the issue has since been resolved and all the missing cases entered into the spreadsheet. The missing positive cases were sent to the U.K.’s Test and Trace program, which has prioritized them for contact tracing.
