Health
Army on Covid-19 standby as Birmingham council goes to emergency door-to-door testing – Mirror Online
Birmingham City Council is in talks with the military about them providing extra support as the city’s coronavirus cases are on the rise
Birmingham City Council hopes to use the army to provide extra capacity for its door-to-door coronavirus testing service service.
As the latest figures showed a rise in the number of coronavirus cases in the city over the past five days, the council’s deputy leader Brigid Jones said 500 council staff had been redeployed to its “drop-and-collect” testing service.
Ms Jones told a meeting of the West Midlands Combined Authority on Friday (September 25) that the initiative involved going door to …
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