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Hundreds of COVID-Positive People in Sydney Urgently Contacted after Getting Wrong Test Results

Healthcare workers administer COVID-19 tests at the St Vincents Hospital drive-through testing clinic at Bondi Beach in Sydney.

Operatori sanitari in una clinica drive-thru per la diagnosi del COVID-19 a Bondi Beach. Source: AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi

A Sydney hospital is contacting hundreds of patients, after wrongly telling them they had tested negative for COVID-19.


The pressure due to the large number of residents taking COVID-19 tests has resulted in an error in the notification of results that should have been positive to negative. A hospital in Sydney was forced to contact hundreds of its patients to resolve this error.


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