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UK to support rest of world to find COVID-19 virus variants
UK genomics expertise and capacity to be offered worldwide to find new variants of SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19
The ‘New Variant Assessment Platform’ will help countries to identify changes in the virus, while providing an early warning of new mutations that could endanger the UK
New commitment to improve Global Health Security comes as the UK holds G7 presidency this year
The UK will offer its world-leading genomics expertise to identify new variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 to countries who do not have the resources to do so.
Reinvigorating our system for international health
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock sets out his priorities for the UK’s G7 presidency.
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In 1832, the London Quarterly Review stated that:
We have witnessed the birth of a new pestilence, which in the short space of 14 years has desolated the fairest portions of the globe, and swept off at least 50 million.
It has mastered every variety of climate, surmounted every natural barrier, and conquered every people.
That was in 1832 and that new pestilence was cholera, which brought devastation across the world.
At first, nations turned inwards, and responded alone but after 3 consecutive cholera pandemics in 30 years, accelerated by growing industrialisation, urbanisation and global trade, countries soon realised that infectious diseases could no longer be handled as a domestic issue alone.
New Covid testing centre at Orsett Heath
A NEW walk-through coronavirus testing facility has opened for those with symptoms to book appointments at Orsett Heath Car Park (RM16 4XH) in Thurrock, as part of the Government’s UK-wide drive to continue to improve the accessibility of coronavirus testing for local communities.
Testing at this site is only available for those with coronavirus symptoms – a high temperature, a new continuous cough, or a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste. Anyone with one or more of these symptoms should book a test at nhs.uk/coronavirus or by calling 119. The government is committed to continue expanding the capacity of the network of UK test sites and laboratories to make it even easier to get tested and reduce the time it takes to receive test results.
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Two new UK Government Covid testing sites open in Fife
The UK Government has opened new walk-through coronavirus testing centres in Glenrothes and Dunfermline
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21 January 2021
The UK Government has today, Thursday 21 January, opened two new walk-through coronavirus testing centres in Fife at Glenrothes Miners Charitable Society in Glenrothes (KY7 5NL) and Dell Farquharson House in Dunfermline (KY12 7DS).
The centres are part of the largest network of diagnostic testing facilities created in British history. In Scotland, this comprises of six drive through sites, 28 walk-through sites, 21 mobile units, plus the Glasgow Lighthouse Lab which is working round the clock to process samples.