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Thousands of Britons May Have Had False Negative Covid Results

  • Government suspends testing operations at private laboratory
  • Some 43,000 could have had incorrect negative PCR test results

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Around 43,000 people in the U.K. may have wrongly been told their coronavirus test was negative due to errors at a laboratory, the government said.