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South African variant: Local restrictions could be needed in London to stop spread, expert warns Nicholas Cecil © Provided by Evening Standard PA Local restrictions may have to be imposed in London if surge testing fails to stop the spread of the Covid-19 South African variant, a leading disease expert suggested today. Professor John Edmunds, epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, stressed it was not yet clear whether the testing of hundreds of thousands of people in the capital will stop a cluster of dozens of cases growing. “What we are looking at in south London is an example of what we’ll see now in the coming months, as we try our best to keep that variant out or at as low a level as we possibly can, because if these mass testing events don’t work that well, and we don’t know yet, I mean we’ll have to eval

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