South Africa variant found in Brentwood, Essex: All residents told 'get tested now'
Richard Percival
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Targeted testing will be offered to residents in the CM13 postcode in Brentwood after a case of the South African variant was detected. It is the latest deployment of surge testing in England in a bid to control and suppress the potential spread of virus variants.
A spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care, said: "Working in partnership with the local authority, additional testing and genomic sequencing is being deployed to the CM13 postcode in Brentwood Essex, where a single case of the Covid-19 variant first identified in South Africa has been found."