Nearly 150 patients may have been wrongly told they had caught coronavirus, a hospital trust has admitted. Nearly 80 patients at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton, Somerset may have been incorrectly told they had coronavirus when they did not.
And a further 69 people are being contacted 'as a precaution' who may also have been given false-positive results, reports Somerset Live.
The Somerset NHS Foundation Trust expressed its “heartfelt apologies" to those affected by this error after initially not revealing the scale of the problem.
The potentially distressing blunder comes as the first results of the government's NHS Test and Trace were published. Dr Daniel Meron, Chief Medical Officer for Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, said 78