England's door-to-door testing blitz to find ‘every single’ South African strain case

Mobile testing units will be deployed in areas where the South African variant has been discovered (Steve Parsons/PA)

A door-to-door testing blitz of 80,000 people in England is aiming to find “every single case” of the South Africa coronavirus variant in a bid to stop the spread of the more infectious strain.

Eleven cases of the variant identified over the past week were in people who had no links to travel, prompting concerns the mutation may be spreading in communities.