Covid-19: Test blitz for South African variant, and unis want loan interest suspended – BBC News

Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday morning. We’ll have another update for you this evening.
On Monday evening, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said 105 cases of the South African Covid-19 variant had been found in the UK. Of those, 11 had no links to international travel. In response, the government is beginning mass, door-to-door testing in eight parts of England where the variant was found – they are in Surrey, London, Kent, Hertfordshire, Southport…

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