Around 25 used coronavirus swab tests have been accidentally handed out in Birmingham, the council have confirmed.

They were handed out in Selly Oak as part of Birmingham City Council’s drop off and collect service, the BBC reports. Birmingham University students who then received the kits opened the boxes and found sealed bags inside.

The council are now said to have carried out an investigation overnight, which found there was ‘no evidence of cross-contamination’ as a result of the mix-up.

A spokesperson further added that there would be a ‘root and branch review’ into what happened.

Word of the error had first got out after a student warned others on a community Facebook page on Tuesday. She wrote: ‘Anyone on [Tiverton Road] given a covid test by guys in high-vis jackets, don’t open!

‘They’ve already been done – we opened up the box and they were sealed and snapped so had obviously been used!’

Sophie Dunne, a second year student, told university newspaper Redbrick that several students had come out of their homes to tell council workers they’d received used kits. She claims they were then told by the staff not to ‘put it on social media’.

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