Concern over Covid testing take-up as officials monitor Indian variant
TOO few people are coming forward for covid-19 tests in Stockton amid continued concern over the potential impact of the Indian variant which has taken hold in some parts of the country.
Sarah Bowman-Abouna, the borough’s director of public health, told a health and wellbeing board meeting that testing activity in the town was “quite low”.
She said: “We need to continue to encourage people to get tested where they don’t have symptoms.”
Ms Bowman-Abouna said the North-East as a whole had seen a high rate of increase in the Indian covid variant, but actual numbers of positive cases involving the variant were small.