Boris Johnson today blamed a ”counting system” failure for instances of coronavirus that nearly doubled, as he indicated that the touch search might have been delayed.
The Prime Minister dodged a more complete explanation while toasting the ordinary peak reported yesterday, with just under 13,000 new cases.
Amid the alarm about the increase, the Department of Health said there had been a “technical problem” by adding several overall in England.
But by appearing on the BBC’s Andrew Marr this morning, Johnson warned that the challenge may have been extra and affected efforts to hint at the contacts of those who tested positive.
“The explanation of why there is a failure in the check formulaArray . . . It’s a PC problem,” he said.
The prime minister added that “everyone who tested positive has already been notified. “
The government released its figures five hours later last night, with a total of 12,872 new instances of Covid-19 confirmed by laboratory across the UK and reported within 24 hours until 9am on Saturday.
On Friday, between 24 a. m. and 9 a. m. , 6,68 cases were confirmed by laboratory in the UK.
Boris Johnson (pictured today for an appearance on the screen of Andrew Marr of the BBC) eluded to give a full explanation while providing at the ordinary peak reported yesterday, with just under 13,000 new cases of coronavirus.
However, the figures refer to the date on which the case was recorded and not to the date on which the sample was taken.
The Ministry of Health warned that infection statistics can also be exaggerated in the coming days after the challenge meant that thousands of cases had already been overlooked by official figures.
Carl Heneghan, professor of evidence-based medicine and director of the Center for Evidence-based Medicine at the University of Oxford, said the most revealing seven-day average showed a “slight increase. “
He said England’s knowledge could reflect a stabilization of the virus, expressed fear about the direction of knowledge in Northern Ireland and Scotland.
While knowledge of the infection increased considerably, the number of deaths remained largely in line with the figures for the rest of the week.
The most recent figures from the Ministry of Health were sent five hours later than the same four in the afternoon. along with a warning that more knowledge will be added to totals in the coming days due to a “technical error”.
In a post on today’s online page, the branch said, ”Due to a technical issue, which has now been resolved, the publication of several COVID-19 cases on the scoreboard in England has been delayed.
“This means that the total reported over the next few days will come with a few more cases from the era between September 24 and October 1, expanding the number of reported cases. “
On Saturday, the total number of cases in the UK rose to 480,017.
The government also said that another 49 people died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 on Saturday, bringing the UK total to 42,317.
Separate figures published through UK statistical agencies show that there are now around 57,900 deaths recorded in the UK where Covid-19 was indexed on the death certificate.
Other figures show that there were 2,194 patients with Covid-19 hospitalized in England on Saturday, up from 1,622 a week ago, while 307 patients hospitalized with Covid-19 were in ventilation beds, up from 223 a week ago.
A total of 368 showed that patients with Covid-19 were admitted to hospitals in England on Thursday, up from 288 the previous week.
The announcement published today on the Ministry of Health and Social Services’s online page after the figures were announced.
Professor Carl Heneghan pushes the importance of the average seven-day data, which he said further reflected the trend of infection compared to daily data.
Commenting on today’s figures, Professor Heneghan pushed the importance of the average seven-day data, which he said further reflected the trend of infection compared to the reported data.
The most recent figures show that England’s average seven-day construction increased from 4600 to 5400 from 18 September to 25 September, to Northern Ireland, where the figure almost doubled from 144 to 263 at the same time and Scotland also saw an increase from 294 to 540. .
He said: “England seems to be stabilizing, but it looks worse in Northern Ireland and Scotland.
“It’s still expanding as winter approaches, however, that’s what happens this time of year with respiratory infections.
“If you look at the seven-day moving average (for England), it stays on the same level. “
When asked why the direction of infection rates may be worse in Scotland and Northern Ireland, Professor Heneghan said this may be due to the good luck of the two countries containing coronavirus on the first wave: there is still a giant organization of others. you can still get the virus.
The timing of the coronavirus wave in Britain showed signs of slowdown on Friday, with the number of new positive tests 1. 4% higher than last week.
Yesterday, an additional 6,968 cases were reported, as high as last Friday’s 6,874.
This slight increase occurs at a time when the maximum days of September have noticed a weekly increase of more than 35%.
On Friday, the smallest weekly accumulation since August 25, suggesting that the resurgence of instances last month peaked.
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) also showed signs that the epidemic was slowing down and estimated that there were 8400 cases of the disease daily in England in the week ended September 24.
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