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We will be bringing you all the latest as Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce more lockdown easing.
A press conference from Downing Street is due to start at 5pm and many expect the PM to confirm more relaxing of the rules.
These include updates on holidays, household mixing and larger groups meeting outside.
The most recent set of rule changes on April 12 saw outdoor hospitality allowed to reopen after months of closures and uncertainty.
Surge testing to be deployed in North Kensington
Additional surge testing and genomic sequencing deployed in North Kensington, where a small number of confirmed cases of a variant of concern have been identified.
From:
10 May 2021
Working in partnership with Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council, NHS Test and Trace is providing additional testing and genomic sequencing in targeted areas within the W11 postcode in North Kensington. This follows the identification of a small number of cases of the variant first discovered in South Africa (B.1.351).
The confirmed cases self-isolated as required and their contacts have been identified. There are no links between these cases and the cluster of cases of this variant recently identified in the South London area.
London coronavirus: Surge testing deployed in new part of London after South African Covid variant discovered
The variant is thought to be more contagious and slightly more resistant to the Oxford vaccine
16:57, 10 MAY 2021
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Surge testing will be deployed in North Kensington after cases of the South African variant of Covid-19 were identified.