⁍ British health minister Matt Hancock said on Monday a technical problem that stopped some positive test results from entering the contact tracing system was an ongoing incident.

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⁍ The issue resulted in 15,841 positive results not being included in the reporting of daily cases and not being transferred to the contact tracing system.

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– British health officials are scrambling to figure out why more than 15,000 people who tested positive for a new virus often referred to as the “Nightmare virus” weren’t sent to the country’s contact- Tracing System because of a glitch, Reuters reports. Health Minister Matt Hancock said Monday that the problem is an ongoing one and that the impact on Britain’s assessment of the disease hasn’t changed. “This is an ongoing incident,” he said. “The chief medical officer has analysed that our assessment of the disease and its impact has not substantially changed as a result of these data.”