Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeSurge testing is being rolled out to two new areas after new cases of the Indian variant of Covid were detected. Everyone aged over 12 in specific postcode areas of Reading and Wokingham, Berkshire, is being urged to take a test. On Thursday, Public Health England announced that the strain is now believed to have overtaken the Kent variant to become dominant in the UK, with cases rising 79% from the previous week. Chris Hopson said the number of people in hospital with the variant was not increasing "very significantly". "We know that the hospitalisations are increasing, the rates of people coming into hospital in those areas are rising.

Source: Daily Mirror June 05, 2021 08:48 UTC