Covid-19 testing station at City Hospital in Birmingham

Council secures more testing kits for Birmingham COVID hotspots

Birmingham City Council has secured almost 30,000 additional lateral flow testing kits following a successful door-to-door operation in COVID hotspots across the city. Three quarters of the 80,000 rapid testing kits supplied by the Department of Health and Social Care when Birmingham became an area of enhanced support on 14 June have now been distributed…

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Young man in Birmingham on public transport wearing a face mask due to COVID coronavirus measures

Birmingham COVID testing to be increased in Alum Rock to suppress South African variant

COVID-19 testing is to be increased in two Birmingham wards in order to monitor and suppress the South African variant, Birmingham City Council has announced. Extensive surveillance of COVID-19 has identified one case of the COVID-19 variant first discovered in South Africa within the Alum Rock and Glebe Farm & Tile Cross wards.

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England's third national lockdown begins on Tuesday 5 January amid rising cases of coronavirus

Lockdown January 2021: What are the new tougher national restrictions and rules?

As Prime Minister Boris Johnson announces a new lockdown for England to be enforced from Tuesday, what exactly are the updated restrictions? According to the latest government statement, the lockdown – beginning today and potentially ending in March with restrictions lifting slowly from mid-February – is similar the first one enforced across England in March last year, but with…

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