"There are a small percentage of cases under Pillar 2 of our testing programme where a person has had multiple tests, or tested positive more than once for coronavirus. As a person can be tested more than once, these two figures are different.īut the government stopped publishing the information about how many people have been tested for coronavirus every day, regardless having a positive or negative outcome, on the 22 May.Īt the time, a Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: "This is simply a statistical issue and part of our efforts to ensure we continue to apply best practice. The government is publishing the number of tests carried out and the number of people tested.
It is important to stress, however, that the number of cases directly relates to the level of testing - if people are not tested, they cannot test positive.
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