8 hours agoThousands of Swedish positives due to error in tests
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)About 3,700 people in Sweden received an incorrect result of being positive with the coronary virus because of a mistake in testing equipment that arrived from China, the country's Public Health Agency reported today. According to the agency, company equipment “BGI Genomics” cannot observe the difference between very high level [...]
According to the agency, company equipment “BGI Genomics” cannot see the difference between the very low level of infection and the negative result, Reuters reports.
“The provider must adjust the required performance to use this test,” said Karin Tegmark Vissel, director of the Department of Microbiology.
She added that the same testing equipment was exported to other countries, but did not elaborate on that.
Wrong results had little effect on statistics on the number of persons infected with the Corona virus.
The agency today reported that since the outbreak of pandemic, 86,891 cases of Corleone have been confirmed, while 5,814 people have died.
