What is being deployed?The government announced this week that it was rolling out additional surge testing and sequencing capacity to a small number of UK locations where community based infections of the covid-19 variant first identified in South Africa (known as 501Y.V2) were found that could not be linked back to international travel.To date, 11 cases of this kind have been identified.
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