More than half a million adults living in Lambeth, Wandsworth, Southwark and Barnet have been offered tests
after cases of the South African variant were discovered if surge testing fails to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant, a Government scientific adviser has suggested.
Speaking on ITV’s Peston show, Professor Edmunds said: ‘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.
The scientist, who is on the Government’s Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies, believes the ‘vast majority’ of the population will need to be immunised to ‘keep a lid on this epidemic more or less permanently’. He added that this will take a ‘long time’.
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