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Additional surge testing facilities open in Wandsworth

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 surge testing facilities open in Wandsworth

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.”

South African variant: Local restrictions could be needed in London to stop spread, expert warns

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

Surge testing widens in London as more cases of South African variant detected

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.

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