Worcester Sixways News Today

An urgent search is underway to find someone in England who tested positive for the worrying ‘Brazil’ variant of Covid but did not leave sufficient details to be traced afterwards. Two other cases, from South Gloucestershire, have been traced; but the whereabouts of a third person to test positive is unknown at present. This raises the disturbing prospect that more people could unknowingly become infected with the potentially more deadly ‘P.I’ strain from Brazil. The missing per...

An urgent search is underway to find someone in England who tested positive for the worrying ‘Brazil’ variant of Covid but did not leave sufficient details to be traced afterwards. Two other cases, from South Gloucestershire, have been traced; but the whereabouts of a third person to test positive is unknown at present. This raises the disturbing prospect that more people could unknowingly become infected with the potentially more deadly ‘P.I’ strain from Brazil. The missing per...

MASS testing of residents from the WR3 area of Worcester is being rolled out at multiple sites today after a new South African variant of the virus was traced to the area.  Worcestershire County Council has organised mass pop-up testing sites at Worcester Sixways and The White Hart pub on Droitwich Road. WR3 residents queued in falling snow to get their tests this morning.  Husband and wife Sylvia, 74, and Tom Lias, 71, were among them.  They said: "When we first heard about the ...

A NEW city testing centre ‘dedicated to identifying cases of the new South African variant of Covid-19’ has opened at Worcester Sixways today.