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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Londoners in areas with surge testing to combat the Covid-19 South African variant were today urged to get a test “as soon as possible”.
The capital’s public health chief Professor Kevin Fenton issued the plea as more testing sites were being opened in south London.
More than half a million adults have been offered tests, including 264,000 in Lambeth, 265,000 in Wandsworth, and 14,800 in SE16 areas of Southwark.
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Surge testing sites have been set up in South London after dozens of cases of the South African variant were discovered this week.