Records of nearly 16,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the UK were lost because Public Health England reportedly configured Microsoft's Excel to import CSV files from testing labs into the legacy XLS ...

The badly thought-out use of Microsoft's Excel software was the reason nearly 16,000 coronavirus cases went unreported in England. And it appears that Public Health England (PHE) was to blame, rather ...

The British Government has launched an investigation into how nearly 16,000 new coronavirus infections went unreported as a result of a technical glitch. The problem appears to have been caused by an ...

People may have caught Covid-19 because an Excel spreadsheet failure stopped nearly 16,000 cases being transferred swiftly to the test-and-trace system, a Cabinet minister admitted today. Health ...