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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
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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, ....

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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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