Almost 600m NHS home Covid tests unaccounted for, auditors reveal

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Results from only 14% of the 691m tests handed out in England have been registered with test and trace

Photograph: Finnbarr Webster/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Finnbarr Webster/Getty ImagesAlmost 600m lateral flow tests given to the public in England may not yet have been used, according to a report that says the hugely expensive test-and-trace system is still bedevilled by problems.Test and Trace , which Boris Johnson promised would be world-beating and has a budget exceeding that of the Department for Transport, was struggling with some “fundamental parts” of its role.

 

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World beating numbers,, lost tests,, covid cases, £ millions wasted,, crap £ 37 billion T&T. . Industrial scale incompetence,,

Isn't it obvious? Almost no one registers negative tests...

People can ring 119 to record the results or log onto the website - many don't .

Hold on - the government were great at manipulating the numbers is that 600m boxes of 7, or 600 individual tests?

But you’re only obliged to report positive tests. Registering a negative result isn’t compulsory.

Isn’t the explanation simply that they are issued in boxes of 7, even if people only need to take one test?

Shouldn’t give them out as freely as they do then?

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My bad! I've taken four (all negative) but didn't record them. Not proud, but it doesn't mean that LFTs aren't useful.

The waste this government produces reaches new levels. Yet the poorest go hungry and the NHS & Schools remain vastly underfunded and left to rot and rely on outside investment

Because we have sent for a kit through our work or said we had kids and tested ourselves and not had covid....👍🙏

NO CONTRACT!!

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