Surge testing operations have been widened across London after further cases of the South African coronavirus variant were found.
Three boroughs in south London have set up additional testing facilities to process thousands of residents, while a case of the variant was also detected in Barnet, north London.
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) confirmed the case in Barnet was unrelated to other clusters, but it had been isolated and the person’s contacts traced.
Coronavirus surge testing in Brockwell Park, south London (Mike Bedigan/PA)
More than half a million adults living in south London boroughs have been offered tests, including 264,000 in Lambeth, 265,000 in Wandsworth, and 14,800 in the Rotherhithe ward of Southwark.
Surge testing widens in London as more cases of South African variant detected
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