Government finally releases Greater Manchester coronavirus data... and there are SIX TIMES more cases than local officials knew about
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukhave been begging government to release ‘pillar two’ testing data, the results of swabs carried out at drive-through stations and other facilities operated here by the private sector on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.
Without it, they only had access to ‘pillar one’ test numbers, those carried out directly by Greater Manchester councils and hospitals and processed in Public Health England labs.That had left public health directors flying blind, unable to accurately gauge the virus’s spread in the community.This week they finally received the missing data - and it shows nearly 400 more people had tested positive in the past week than their existing figures would have suggested.In total there had been 78 new ‘pillar one’.
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