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Meanwhile, the pandemic is rampant throughout the country, the government already says that it will not be possible to vaccinate everyone and a survey rejects citizens: only 1 in 10 respected the isolation
by Biagio Simonetta
Meanwhile, the pandemic is rampant throughout the country, the government already says that it will not be possible to vaccinate everyone and a survey rejects citizens: only 1 in 10 respected the isolation
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The relationship between the UK and this pandemic has been strained from the beginning. The initial reluctance of Boris Johnson (later infected in the hospital), the delay in the containment measures, the slight confinement, are elements that have given the news the photograph of an administrative machine that can undoubtedly be reviewed. But the story is not over. Because a new sensational failure has hit London and the government of Boris Johnson, and this time it is all “fault” of Excel, the famous calculation program produced by Microsoft.
Due to problems with the classic spreadsheet, according to the British media, the Ministry of Health has lost data on some 16 thousand infected. More precisely: almost 16 thousand people who tested positive for the coronavirus between September 25 and October 2 were not registered in the daily number of reported cases, which produces an artificially low image of the spread of the virus and, above all , delays efforts to track people who came into contact with those who contracted Covid-19. In short, the pandemic has gotten out of hand. Because the “test & trace” program developed by the British authorities was not respected in 16 thousand cases. And this can have very serious repercussions on the route of infection.
Due to this error, the figures reported by the authorities during the past weekend seemed strangely much higher than the day before. About 13,000 on Saturday, more than 22,000 on Sunday. The data increased precisely because of the disappeared in recent days. The disclosure and admission of the error sparked a storm of criticism of the Johnson administration. To date, in Britain, the victims of this pandemic are more than 57 thousand, the highest number in Europe, and now the Queen’s country faces a second wave of very disturbing infections.
An “accident that shouldn’t have happened”
“This incident should never have happened,” Health Secretary Matt Hancock told Parliament, promising a government investigation and updating of outdated computer systems. In fact, this last aspect is the most disturbing. That a world power like Great Britain manages the contagions of a pandemic with simple Excel spreadsheets leaves many perplexities. Especially in the age of the cloud and supercomputers. Indeed, Labor has taken the ball to attack the government and its “serial incompetence”. Jonathan Ashworth, the shadow health secretary, said: “This is not a disaster. It’s much worse ‘.
