Excel Bungles UK COVID Tracing

Those who work on databases will find a lot more to be amused by this report. 

People may have caught Covid-19 because an Excel spreadsheet failure stopped nearly 16,000 cases being transferred swiftly to the test-and-trace system, a Cabinet minister admitted today.

The error is believed to have been caused by a spreadsheet containing lab results reaching its maximum size, and failing to update.

It is understood the Excel spreadsheet reached its maximum file size, which stopped new names being added in an automated process. The files have now been split into smaller multiple files to prevent the issue happening again.