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    Covid: how Excel may have caused loss of 16,000 test results in England

    Public Health England data error blamed on limitations of Microsoft spreadsheetCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage
    by Alex Hern UK technology editor Oct 05, 2020 2 minutes
    More than 50,000 potentially infectious people may have been missed by contact tracers after 15,841 positive tests were left off the daily figures. Photograph: Simon Leigh/Alamy

    A million-row limit on Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet software may have led to Public Health England misplacing nearly 16,000 Covid test results, it is understood.

    The data error, which led to 15,841 positive tests being, means than 50,000 potentially infectious people may have been missed by contact tracers and not told to self-isolate.

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