A bit worrying.
*Tests for South African variant in Surrey
Door-to-door testing for the South African variant of coronavirus is to start in Surrey after cases were found with no known links with travel or previous cases.
So far, cases of the variant in the UK had been traced back to South Africa – but experts say two people in Woking found with the variant have no such known links.
Local council workers will go house-to-house to offer swab tests for 9,500 people in the Goldsworth Park and St Johns areas of Woking, Surrey, from this afternoon - with house checks also planned for nearby Egham later in the week.
Surrey’s Local Resilience Forum urged people in the affected areas to "remain calm" and continue to follow the rules on lockdown and self-isolation.
It's understood surge testing will also be carried out in the other parts of England with cases of the variant.
Similar cases were discovered in Ealing and Haringey in London, Walsall in the West Midlands, Broxbourne in Hertfordshire, and Kent, BBC Radio Surrey understands.*
oneglassandpuzzled could you please tell me where that information is from? I'm a lurker on these threads but usually feel insufficiently informed to comment. However, this bit of information is too (physically) close to home.
I was hospitalised before Christmas with Covid and am lucky to have survived. Family members living here were also hit, some harder than others. We have been careful and I had very rarely been out, so have little idea as to where/how I caught it. I wonder if there is any way of telling which variant we had. If not the South African variant, my stress levels are going to be going up pretty sharpish!