Government quietly drops 1.3m Covid tests from England tally
Exclusive: Double counting raises fresh questions about accuracy of testing figures
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The government has quietly removed 1.3m coronavirus tests from its data because of double counting, raising fresh questions about the accuracy of the testing figures.
In the government’s daily coronavirus update on Wednesday, it announced it had lowered the figure for “tests made available” by about 10% and discontinued the metric.
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