The Leader of Milton Keynes Council Peter Marland has said the government needs to 'get a grip' on coronavirus data.
It follows the revelation this morning that government coronavirus case numbers on a local authority level do not include any tests from local drive-through test centres and some home testing kits.
Revealed by the Financial Times, it means that local case numbers for Milton Keynes do not include the results from the Drive Through centre in Central Milton Keynes.
Cllr Marland said: “People should be able to access data about their area quickly and easily. Milton Keynes Council will also be providing a weekly update from mid-July and we need complete data for those reports."
"We need to trust people to then take sensible precautions to manage their risk. Publishing incomplete data can be unhelpful and lead to a false sense of security. Milton Keynes still has a low infection rate but we can not take things for granted."
"The government needs to get a grip and make sure we all have the right information so people can make sensible decisions.”
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