original_query: What technical issue caused a delay in publishing COVID-19 cases to the dashboard in England?
query: What technical issue caused a delay in publishing COVID-19 cases to the dashboard in England?
answer: A technical issue in the automated process that transfers positive cases data to PHE caused a delay in publishing COVID-19 cases to the dashboard in England.  This resulted in a delay in publishing a number of cases between September 24th and October 1st and artificially inflated numbers on October 3rd and 4th.