Vaccine squads to go door-to-door to offer covid jabs to ethnic-minority families amid low uptake

Vaccine squads will go door-to-door to offer Covid-19 jabs to ethnic-minority families in large households amid low uptake after pilot inoculated hundreds Ministers plan to roll out the scheme to increase covid vaccination uptake A successful pilot targeting multi-generation homes in Luton and Bradford has resulted in hundreds of adults being vaccinated in the past … Read more

Vaccine squads to go door-to-door to offer covid jabs to ethnic-minority families amid low uptake

Vaccine squads will go door-to-door to offer Covid-19 jabs to ethnic-minority families in large households amid low uptake after pilot inoculated hundreds Ministers plan to roll out the scheme to increase covid vaccination uptake A successful pilot targeting multi-generation homes in Luton and Bradford has resulted in hundreds of adults being vaccinated in the past … Read more

Worchestershire covid: Door-to-door ‘surge testing’ for South African coronavirus variant spreads

Door-to-door ‘surge testing’ for South African coronavirus variant spreads to two new postcodes in Worcestershire Worchestershire County Council set up surge testing in the WR3 postcode Mobile testing unit set up at The White Hart pub, Fernhill Heath, near Worcester  Drive-through testing site is planned for opening in the coming days  By Emer Scully For … Read more

PAUL THOMAS on… door-to-door testing

PAUL THOMAS on… door-to-door testing By Paul Thomas For The Daily Mail Published: 02:01 GMT, 3 February 2021 | Updated: 02:01 GMT, 3 February 2021 Advertisement To order a print of this Paul Thomas cartoon or one by Pugh, visit Mailpictures.newsprints.co.uk or call 0191 6030 178.  Share or comment on this article:

Don’t panic over door-to-door testing, writes Professor BRENDAN WREN 

Don’t panic. This is not doomsday. The sight of government testers going door-to-door in protective clothing, in search of the new Covid variants, might look like a scene from a horror movie, but there’s no cause for real alarm. Coronavirus mutations such as the so-called South African variant, which have emerged in recent weeks, are … Read more

Don’t panic over door-to-door testing, writes Professor BRENDAN WREN 

Don’t panic. This is not doomsday. The sight of government testers going door-to-door in protective clothing, in search of the new Covid variants, might look like a scene from a horror movie, but there’s no cause for real alarm. Coronavirus mutations such as the so-called South African variant, which have emerged in recent weeks, are … Read more

Door-to-door testing for South African variant to start in Surrey

Kent variant Real name: B.1.1.7 When was it discovered? The variant was first found in the South East of England and can be traced back to September 2020. What mutations does it have? It has 23 mutations, some of which change the shape of the spike protein on its outside. The main mutation is known as N501Y. … Read more

Door-to-door testing for South African variant to start in Surrey

Kent variant Real name: B.1.1.7 When was it discovered? The variant was first found in the South East of England and can be traced back to September 2020. What mutations does it have? It has 23 mutations, some of which change the shape of the spike protein on its outside. The main mutation is known as N501Y. … Read more