British health minister Matt Hancock said on Monday a technical problem that stopped some positive COVID-19 test results from entering the contact tracing system was an ongoing incident but it had not hurt government's understanding of the coronavirus crisis.

"This is an ongoing incident," Hancock said of the issue that was identified on Friday evening and resulted in 15,841 positive results not being included in the reporting of daily cases and not being transferred to the contact tracing system.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson sought on Monday to play down the failure in England's COVID-19 testing data system, saying the much higher updated figures were more in line with forecasts of the outbreak's spread

But the glitch is likely to cast further doubt over Johnson's handling of the coronavirus pandemic; his Conservative government's response has been cast by political opponents as slow, poorly organized and confusing.

On Sunday, authorities reported a jump in daily COVID-19 cases to a record 22,961, after saying a technical issue had meant that thousands of test results had not been transferred into computer systems on time, including for contact tracers.

Public Health England said all people whose tests were the subject of the glitch had been given their results in a timely fashion, and that those who had tested positive had been told to self-isolate.

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