coronavirus cases that he was "unable to say" how many contacts of positive cases had been missed as a result of the testing fiasco.
The glitch, identified by Public Health England on Friday, resulted in almost 16,000 positive cases not being added to official government figures.And although individuals were informed of their positive status, NHS Test and Trace was not told as a result of the error, so there was a delay in speaking to their close contacts.Mr Johnson told reporters in central London: “I can’t give you those figures."What I can say is all those people are obviously being contacted and the key thing is that everybody, whether in this group or generally, should self-isolate.”“What happened here was that some of the data got.