Covid surge testing will happen in elements of east London this weekend after “a number of” new cases of the Brazilian and South African coronavirus variants had been recognized, the federal government has mentioned.
Officials with Test and Trace and Tower Hamlets Council will perform extra testing and genomic sequencing in focused areas inside the E1 postcode from Sunday, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) mentioned on Saturday.
All of the confirmed cases in Tower Hamlets are self-isolating and there aren’t any recognized hyperlinks between these cases and the cluster of cases just lately recognized within the south London space, the DHSC mentioned.
Everyone aged 11 and over who lives, works or is educated in these postcodes is being inspired to take a take a look at when invited, whether or not they’re exhibiting signs or not, it mentioned in a press release.
A spokesperson instructed The Independent that its announcement of surge testing in Tower Hamlets didn’t embrace plans for door-to-door testing.
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According to Tower Hamlets Council’s web site, the place extra particular particulars can be found, variants of concern have been recognized in elements of E1, E2, E3 and E14 – with 10 sub-districts listed in complete.
It stays unclear what number of new cases in these areas have been recognized, described as “a small quantity” by the council and as “a number of” by DHSC.
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It comes two weeks after Professor John Edmunds, epidemiologist on the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, warned that elements of the capital may be subjected to native lockdown restrictions if new variants of continued to unfold regardless of mass surge testing within the boroughs of Lambeth, Wandsworth, Southwark and Barnet.
“What we’re in south London is an instance of what we’ll see now within the coming months, as we strive our greatest to preserve that variant out or at as low a degree as we presumably can,” he instructed ITV’s Peston programme.
“If these mass testing occasions don’t work that effectively, and we don’t know but, we’ll have to consider this one very rigorously, then it’s attainable that we’ll have to impose some form of native restrictions again in place and no one desires to do it.”
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