ORLANDO, Fla. — The Florida Health Department said a mix-up by a private lab has caused them to delay the Saturday release of the state’s coronavirus numbers.
Officials said the DOH received approximately 400,000 previously-reported COVID-19 test results from Helix Laboratory, which is a private lab that is not affiliated with the state of Florida.
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Because of an automatic reporting system, technicians now need to remove hundreds of thousands of duplicate results, officials said.
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Officials said state epidemiologists are currently working to correct the data, which will take a day to finish.
Because of this, the state announced Saturday that the state’s daily reports will resume Sunday.
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