Covid cases confirmation backlog disguising real number – researcher

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Headline figures on coronavirus giving public ‘completely wrong idea’, says Dr Elaine Doyle

Nphet has said there is an overall backlog of 9,000 cases which have yet to be verified because of a spike in transmission over Christmas.“If we had 5,500 positive swabs in a day, and 10 per cent maximum are duplicates or, for some reason, have to be removed from the official tally - that means we have the guts of 5,000 new cases in one day,” she said.

Official figures are “stalling around the 1,700 mark” because the case management system can only deal with so many new cases, meaning Ireland has no “real time statistics about what is actually happening on the ground.”

 

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How after 9 months do the HSE not have a system that gives real time updates?

Thank you for covering this, we all know the cases are much worse that what is being told to the public, hopefully this gets article gets attention and the government will have to tell the true number, i don't get the lies its going to be leaked by Leo might aswell tell us now

They had two lockdowns to get this right..

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