UK PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND & SERCO IN A DEADLY CORONA VIRUS TEST MIX UP.

The corona virus is one deadly epidemic that has put the world in a shivering mode since the work witnessed it early this year, but the world has thought we are in control as things are gradually getting back to normal as the world is finally opening its boarder to facilitate movement and initially abandoned activities, but a disturbing story coming from the United Kingdom through the office of Public Health England . (PHE) as a result of an IT error, nearly 16,000 Covid cases were not included in the daily totals between Sept 25th and October 2nd. Total UK figure is now over half a million.

But reactions coming forward indicates SERCO a private company is saddled with the responsibility and not NHS, sampling, statistics, records and compilations are SERCO's. A commentator on the issue insists;  Please stop referring to it as "NHS Test and Trace". We all know it is "SERCO Test and Trace" and has little or nothingto do with the NHS.

Another one enthused; That would be SERCO Test and Trace. It’s way past time that the test/trace system was given to local NHS management. With adequate additional financial and staffing support from the government.

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To give an indication of how wrong the figures we’ve been getting are, these are the updated figured for the last few days. In brackets are the case numbers PHE supplied at the time. Sept 30th: 10,157 (7,108), Oct 1st:  11,057 (6,914), Oct 2nd: 11,754 (6,968). PHE Medical Adviser Susan Hopkins: “All outstanding cases were immediately transferred to the contact tracing system by 1am on 3 October and a thorough public health risk assessment was undertaken to ensure outstanding cases were prioritised for contact tracing effectively.”

The only thing worse than no Track & Trace is a broken system that gives people false security and actively encourages them into behaviour which they thought was safe for their loved ones, but may actually have resulted in thousands of new infections. Shameful incompetence sets.

Michael Brodie, interim CEO of PHE says the issue was identified on 2nd October. PHE keen to stress all involved did receive their test results. 75% of the cases involved relate to cases from 30th Sept to 2nd October. NHS Test and Trace and PHE have worked to quickly resolve the issue and transferred all outstanding cases immediately into the NHS Test and Trace contact tracing system.” It looks like they weren’t contact traced before. Error has meant there’s been an important delay.