Saitama Prefecture announced that a private testing company in Maebashi City, which had been outsourced to a PCR test for the new coronavirus by a medical institution in the prefecture, had mistakenly determined that 150 negative samples were positive.
It means that the 31 people who have already been counted as infected by the prefecture will be withdrawn.
According to Saitama Prefecture, the "SR Kita Kanto Testing Center" in Maebashi City was conducting PCR tests at the request of medical institutions, but for 150 people who were negative among the tests commissioned from Saitama Prefecture. It means that the sample was mistakenly judged to be positive.
The prefecture has announced that 31 of these, which had already been counted as infected, will be withdrawn from the number of infected on the 12th, saying that the retest was negative.
Based on this incorrect judgment, one person was hospitalized and two people were treated as accommodations in Saitama prefecture.
With this, a total of 71,170 people have been announced as infected in the prefecture.
Regarding the "SRL Kita Kanto Testing Center", it is known that more than 200 samples were erroneously judged to be positive even in the tests commissioned by Gunma Prefecture.