Mass testing after two who haven t travelled catch South Africa Covid
Health workers will go door to door offering to test all residents in some areas
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Door-to-door coronavirus testing is being launched across eight parts of England where it is feared the South African variant causing panic around the world is spreading in the community.
In a desperate attempt to keep track of the mutated virus that experts fear could hamper the current crop of vaccines, health officials will join forces with local police, councillors and firefighters to visit homes in Woking in Surrey, Walsall in the West Midlands, as well as parts of London, Kent, Hertfordshire and Lancashire, to offer residents a swab.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said tonight people in those areas must take extra special precautions amid the threat of an outbreak of the new, highly-infectious variant. Speaking at tonight s Downing Street press conference, he added: The stay at home message is there for everyone but in particular in those areas it s absolutely vital that people minimise all social contact and get a test when the opportunity arises.
Door to door testing is to begin for the South Africa variant of Covid-19 Urgent door-to-door testing for the South Africa variant is to start in parts of England, including London, after untraceable cases of coronavirus have been found. Residents in a part of Surrey are to be the first to be urgently tested for Covid-19 after it emerged the South African strain of the virus may have started spreading in the community. The surge testing has been announced as a precautionary measure and will monitor the community spread of the new varient. A total of 105 cases of the South Africa variant have been found to date in the UK, but this is the first sign of wider community spread.
South African Covid-19 cases see door-to-door testing in Maidstone as Health Secretary Matt Hancock warns ME15 residents to stay at home
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Updated: 10:54, 02 February 2021
Door-to-door testing will take place in Maidstone after a case of the South African Covid-19 variant was found.
Home Secretary Matt Hancock said that people living in the ME15 part of Kent, which covers much of Maidstone, are to stay inside and wait to be tested, although a map has since revealed it will not be the whole postcode area.
The map of the area, which includes ME15 and a few addresses in ME16 and ME17
Speaking at this evening s Downing Street briefing, he said 105 cases of the South African variant had been found in the UK, with 11 which did not appear to have any links to international travel.
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