Additional COVID-19 testing sites have opened across the borough for a two-week surge period. Everyone over the age of 11 who lives, works, or studies in Wandsworth or Lambeth is being urged to take a COVID-19 PCR test after new cases of the South African variant were found this week. However, there have been reports that long wait times and queues have prevented people from getting tested. Wandsworth Council said: “We’re aware that due to the wonderful response to the call for everyone to get tested the system and waiting times has, at times, proved to be frustrating.” “To make this easier for all we will have extra sites open for testing and there are now 23 pharmacies taking booking for PCR testing.”
Additional COVID-19 testing sites have opened across the borough for a two-week surge period. Everyone over the age of 11 who lives, works, or studies in Wandsworth or Lambeth is being urged to take a COVID-19 PCR test after new cases of the South African variant were found this week. However, there have been reports that long wait times and queues have prevented people from getting tested. Wandsworth Council said: “We’re aware that due to the wonderful response to the call for everyone to get tested the system and waiting times has, at times, proved to be frustrating.” “To make this easier for all we will have extra sites open for testing and there are now 23 pharmacies taking booking for PCR testing.”
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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.