澳大利亚实验室SydPath在一份声明中称，由于“数据处理错误”，它向数百名患者发送了错误的检测结果声明。
实验室在一份声明中宣布声明周一，共有995名在12月22日、12月23日和12月24日进行过COVID测试的人收到短信，称他们的测试结果为阴性，而结果尚未确定。
在这995人中，有486人实际上检测呈阳性。
这是在实验室之后宣布的周日，它告诉400多人，当他们的结果为阳性时，他们的结果是阴性的。
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12月28日，医护人员在邦迪海滩检测诊所进行新冠肺炎检测...
这一错误发生在该国新冠肺炎病例数量激增之际。根据澳大利亚政府的数据，周二，澳大利亚报告了11，260例新的阳性病例，使其活跃的新冠肺炎病例累计数达到323，285例卫生部。
该实验室是悉尼圣文森特医院的一部分，据其表示，该实验室成立了一个应急小组，以“尽快纠正问题”网站，将错误描述为“笔误”
那些受影响的人在实验室的任何一个诊所都做过测试。
SydPath表示，它将减少它处理的测试数量，“以确保数量保持在我们的能力范围内”，它在声明。
实验室表示，他们已经联系了这些人，并将向他们提供最新的正确结果。根据its，它建议任何受影响的人自我隔离，直到他们接触到正确的结果网站。
SydPath没有立即回复美国广播公司新闻的置评请求。
Hundreds in Australia receive wrong COVID test results
SydPath, an Australian-based lab, sent hundreds of patients the wrong test results, due to a "data processing error," it said in astatement.
The lab announced in astatementMonday that a total of 995 people, who had taken COVID- tests on Dec. 22, Dec. 23 and Dec. 24 had received text messages that their test results were negative when the results had not yet been determined.
Of those 995 people, 486 people had actually tested positive.
This comes after the labannouncedon Sunday it had told more than 400 people their results were negative when they were positive.
This error comes as the country sees the number of COVID-19 cases surge. On Tuesday, Australia reported 11,260 new positive cases, bringing its cumulative number of active COVID-19 cases to 323,285, according to the government'sDepartment of Health.
The lab, a part of St. Vincent's Hospital Sydney, established an emergency response team to "rectify the issue as soon as possible," according to itswebsite, characterizing the mistake as a "clerical error."
Those impacted had taken tests at any of the lab's clinics.
SydPath said it will reduce the number of tests it processes "to ensure the volume remains within our capacity," it said in thestatement..
The lab said it reached out to those people and will update them with their correct results. It advised anyone impacted to self isolate until they are contacted with their correct results, according to itswebsite.
SydPath did not immediately respond to ABC News' Request for comment.
