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Gloucestershire MPs issue joint statement on faulty Covid tests

The six Gloucestershire MPs have issued a joint statement raising concerns about faulty PCR tests and the rising Covid numbers for the county.

The statement says: "Over the last 2-3 weeks there has been a significant rise in the number of Gloucestershire residents infected by the virus.

"Part of the problem has been that many thousands of PCR tests by Gloucestershire residents were processed by a laboratory in Wolverhampton (Immensa), and almost 4,000 of the results were subsequently found to be wrong.

"This meant that those residents both had the virus without knowing it and were also unwittingly spreading it."

Alex Chalk MP for Cheltenham has written to the Director of Scientific Strategy and Development at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) on behalf of the group of MPs about the investigation being conducted into the issue at Immensa.

The letter emphasises the importance of a 'swift conclusion and recommendations' so that whatever errors are unearthed are not repeated there or elsewhere.

The statement adds: "This is vital for our and other areas' safety. We have also raised questions from constituents with the Secretary of State for the Department for Health and Social Care."

The statement is signed jointly by Siobhan Baillie, Alex Chalk, Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown, Richard Graham, Mark Harper and Laurence Robertson.

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