One in every 85 people in England have Covid-19, with more than two per cent of the population of London believed to be infected. Meanwhile, thousands of stranded truck driversawaited their turns to cross the English Channel, held up by the slow delivery of coronavirus tests.
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A man conducts a Covid-19 test on a driver at the Port of Dover in Kent, England. The truckers and travellers stuck in a days-long gridlock at the English port of Dover started heading to France on Friday (NZ time) after the country partially reopened its borders with Britain following international concern over a rapidly spreading new coronavirus variant.