Laboratory Suspended After Producing Tens of Thousands of Incorrect COVID-19 Test Results: UK

A health care worker administers a PCR test on a woman in the intensive care unit of the Rafic Hariri University Hospital in the Lebanese capital Beirut, on Jan. 5, 2021. Joseph Eid/AFP via Getty Images

UK health officials on Friday said that an estimated 43,000 people may have been incorrectly told they do not have COVID-19 due to problems with testing at a private laboratory.

The Immensa Health Clinic Lab in Wolverhampton, England, was suspended from processing test swaps after reports surfaced of false negatives. The faulty test results were among tests that were processed a the facility between sometime in early September and this week, officials with the UK Health Security Agency said.