The badly thought-out use of Microsoft's Excel software was the reason nearly 16,000 coronavirus cases went unreported in England. And it appears that Public Health England (PHE) was to blame, rather ...

There was so much data, the Excel worksheet being used to store it ran out of columns and stopped updating. Over the weekend the number of reported COVID-19 infections in the UK spiked by an ...

Public Health England (PHE) has apologised for a technical glitch which meant almost 16,000 Covid-19 cases went unreported. PHE said a technical issue resulted in 15,841 cases between September 25 and ...

Public Health England admitted on Sunday that the agency has under-reported COVID-19 infections by 15,841 cases in recent days due to a "technical issue." The missing positive tests were conducted ...