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An extra 11,000 positive coronavirus tests missing from official figures in Wales demonstrate “how serious the position” in the country is, First Minister Mark Drakeford has said.
Maintenance work on Public Health Wales systems at the end of last week meant the numbers were not included on top of 11,911 positive cases reported by the agency between December 9 and 15.
On Thursday Mr Drakeford denied the data had been “missing” from the country’s figures in recent days and was known by the Welsh Government.
(PA Graphics)
He told BBC Breakfast: “This was planned upgrading of the computer system, none of the data is missing, everybody who had a positive test in Wales was told that last week, everything was uploaded on to our Track, Trace and Protect system.
Updated: Thu 17th Dec
Public Health Wales updates coronavirus data – “no missing results” and “no delays in people getting their results”
This article is old - Published: Thursday, Dec 17th, 2020
Public Health Wales has updated public coronavirus data after a systems upgrade was completed.
Last week they trailed the systems update, and said that public reporting would be lagging until that was completed.
Today that data has been added in, resulting in around 11,000 cases across Wales now being historically added to recent local authority data. There has been similar lagging data in the past with figures updating previous days information (one example here from earlier this year) however they have usually been in the single figure range.
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In a statement, the agency said the delay was related to the maintenance of the NHS Welsh Laboratory Information Management System (WLIMS) . This took place on Friday and Saturday (11-12 December) so that essential service upgrades could take place . This means that we expect a backlog of results to come through over the coming days, and there will be a period of data reconciliation and validation that will affect our daily reporting figures for several days. Tomorrow s figures and those over the following days will be higher as a result of the backlog coming through.
An extra 11,000 positive coronavirus tests missing from official figures in Wales demonstrate “how serious the position” in the country is, First Minister Mark Drakeford has said.
Maintenance work on Public Health Wales systems at the end of last week meant the numbers were not included on top of 11,911 positive cases reported by the agency between December 9 and 15.
On Thursday Mr Drakeford denied the data had been “missing” from the country’s figures in recent days and was known by the Welsh Government.
(PA Graphics)
He told BBC Breakfast: “This was planned upgrading of the computer system, none of the data is missing, everybody who had a positive test in Wales was told that last week, everything was uploaded on to our Track, Trace and Protect system.