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Matt Hancock has confirmed that surge testing will be rolled out to curb the spread of the Indian variant of the Covid-19 coronavirus.
Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth said: “As of today, UK COG (Covid Genomics UK) reports 135 cases of B1617 in the UK, 115 in the last 28 days – the fastest growing variant in the UK in the last three weeks.”