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SINGAPORE: A student from Jurong West Secondary School was incorrectly diagnosed with COVID-19, after Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH) mislabelled testing samples.
"The original test was undertaken by our laboratory. Subsequently, the student was admitted to NUH and re-tested twice and found to be negative on both occasions. Our laboratory repeated a PCR test on the original sample and the result was negative," said TTSH in a media release on Tuesday (Jul 14).
"Our investigations revealed that there was an erroneous reporting of this case by our laboratory. This arose from a human error in the laboratory where two patients had their specimens cross-labelled."