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Residents are receiving their home test kits this week - Pictures by PA Targeted coronavirus testing has been rolled out in Surrey as authorities work to contain the spread of the South African variant. Door-to-door deliveries began on Tuesday with extra testing in eight postcode areas of the country, as urgent efforts got under way to swab 80,000 people in a bid to stop transmission. In Woking, Surrey – where two cases of the strain were discovered, volunteers were ringing and knocking on doors on streets within part of the GU21 postcode area. Plans involve more than 100 volunteers handing over PCR tests, which are not compulsory, for around 9,500 residents living in the area this week.
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Targeted coronavirus testing has been rolled out across areas of England as authorities work to contain the spread of the South African variant.
Door-to-door deliveries began on Tuesday with extra testing in eight postcode areas of the country, as urgent efforts got under way to swab 80,000 people in a bid to stop transmission.
Some locals expressed concern about the variant â which is thought to be as transmissible as the Kent strain but not known to cause more severe disease â with one man saying more action should have been taken sooner.
Door-to-door deliveries of thousands of coronavirus tests aiming to catch cases of the South African variant are under way, with some residents feeling concerned about the presence of the strain in England.
The rollout of extra testing in eight postcode areas of the country is part of urgent efforts to swab 80,000 people and halt the spread of the strain.
Eleven cases of the variant have been identified over the last five or six days in people who have no links to travel – suggesting it may be spreading in communities.
In Woking, Surrey, on Tuesday, where two cases of the strain were discovered, volunteers began ringing and knocking on doors on streets within part of the GU21 postcode area to explain the reasoning for testing and leave kits for residents.