Covid crackdown: Kent residents offered doorstep testing
Door-to-door coronavirus testing has started this morning in parts of mid-Kent after a specific variant of COVID-19 was identified.
Households within the ME15 area will be visited by staff from Kent Police, Maidstone Borough Council, Kent Fire and Rescue and other support agencies, who will knock on their door and ask everyone aged 16 and over to carry out a PCR test there and then.
The test will then be picked up and sent for laboratory testing within a short time of the initial visit by the same team.
Cllr Martin Cox is the leader of Maidstone Borough Council, Lib Dem
In total, Public Health England has identified 105 cases of the COVID-19 variant first identified in South Africa since 22 December.
Extensive surveillance of the virus has identified a small number of cases of the COVID-19 variant first identified in South Africa in localities across England, that cannot be traced back to international travel.
All cases are now self-isolating and robust contact tracing has taken place to trace their contacts and ask them to self-isolate.
The variant is known as the South African SARS-CoV-2 - also known as VOC0202012/02.
The postcodes included in the targeted testing are:
ME15 0ES
ME15 0ET
ME15 0EU
ME15 0HJ
ME15 0HL
ME15 0HN
ME15 0HP
ME15 0HR
ME15 0HS
ME15 0HT
ME15 0HU
ME15 0HX
ME15 0HY
ME15 0HZ
ME15 0JB
ME15 0PP
ME15 0PS
ME15 0QG
ME15 6AA
ME15 6AB
ME15 6AD
ME15 6AG
ME15 6AJ
ME15 6AL
ME15 6AN
ME15 6AQ
ME15 6AU
ME15 6AY
ME15 6AZ
ME15 6BA
ME15 6BB
ME15 6BD
ME15 6BE
ME15 6BF
ME15 6BG
ME15 6BH
ME15 6BJ
ME15 6BL
ME15 6BN
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ME15 6BW
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ME15 6BY
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ME15 7DP
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ME15 9UY
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ME15 9XQ
ME15 9XS
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ME15 9ZJ
ME15 9ZL
ME15 9ZN
ME15 9ZP
ME15 9ZR
ME16 8GD
ME16 8GE
ME16 8LW
ME16 8RB
ME16 8RD
ME16 9NB
ME17 4NA
ME17 4NB
ME17 4ND
ME17 4NF.