Door-to-Door Tests for Parts of England As Community Cases of SA Variant Emerge

Medical staff are seen testing people at a COVID-19 test centre in Chessington, UK, on April 2, 2020. Toby Melville/Reuters

Door-to-door “surge testing” for the CCP virus is to be carried out in eight local areas in England after several cases of the South Africa variant emerged that could not be traced to travel from the country.

Those cases are the first in the UK of community transmission of the variant, which is more transmissible and is thought to be more resistant to some vaccines.