Surge Covid testing deployed to two new areas to stop spread of Indian strain

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Surge Covid testing deployed for anyone over 12 in Reading and Wokingham to stop spread of Indian variant

Hopson said the number of people in hospital with the variant was not increasing "very significantly".

"What we think we can start to say now, based on that experience, is that it does look as though the vaccines have broken the chain between catching Covid-19 and potentially being very, very seriously ill and potentially dying. Ministers and medics would also have more time to study data if "Freedom Day" was delayed, with infections worryingly back at March levels.

 

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Deaths are low and steady hospital admissions are falling, time to get on with life wether the media likes it or not

This will mean more false positives .surge testing is designed to make things look worse than they are

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