The Ministry of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands has reported this Thursday that after repeating the study of the tests carried out on October 13, with an initial result of 60 positives for covid-19, it has been determined that the figure is 1 and that 59 were flawed tests.
The error has been produced by the malfunction of the robot that performs the PCR analyzes, has indicated the Ministry of Health, which confirms initial suspicions that the high rate of positives detected in El Hierro was due to a failure in the system .
The president of the Island Council, Alpidio Armas, has appeared before the media after clarifying the situation. The first person in charge of the island corporation has celebrated the result, although he has affirmed that it is “regrettable that these issues happen, but it usually happens when massive screening is done and when either, on the one hand, they have relaxed in the controls or, on the other , the viral load of a sample is so powerful that it contaminates the rest “.
So far no further information has been given regarding the failure that led to the contradictory results, but they affirm that the problem is resolved and the robot that analyzes the tests on the island is operational.
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