Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
Tens of thousands of coronavirus tests have been double-counted, officials admit
Two samples taken from the same patient are being recorded as two separate tests in the Government's official figures
www.telegraph.co.uk
Diagnostic tests which involve taking saliva and nasal samples from the same patient are being counted as two tests, not one.
The Department of Health and Social Care and Public Health England each confirmed the double-counting.
Once again a government elected on a load of lies........................um lies. The clowns set a target of 100k tests per day by the end of April and failed to meet it. So they decided to count any tests that they posted out as part of the total. They got busted over that.
So having failed that target they set a new target of 200k per day by the end of May. This will not happen so they have come up with a new fiddle as outlined above.
These stats are brought to you by the people who count a pair of ppe gloves as two items to make it look like they have ordered more than they actually have.
Conservatives would have nothing to say if they couldnt lie.