New surge testing site opens after Covid variant discovered in Manchester

direct to your inboxMore than 140 cases of Covid-19 have been found as part of localised mass testing in Manchester - though none involve a ‘variant of concern’ found in parts of the city so far.Testing programmes in the north and south of the city have been successful in the ongoing efforts to prevent people unknowingly spreading the virus.But public health officials are ‘frustrated’ with the speed at which positive tests are being analysed by laboratories to see if they matched the E484k

direct to your inboxAll NHS Nightingale hospitals including Manchester are to be 'stood down' as the number of Covid patients dropped below 10,000, the Health Secretary has confirmed. The emergency sites were set up when the pandemic first hit last year amid fears of a huge surge in critically ill patients.

direct to your inboxSome of the most deprived areas of Greater Manchester have seen the lowest levels of vaccine uptake.Areas of Rusholme, Longsight and Moss Side, in south Manchester, have particularly low rates.In Moss Side West, just 65.67 per cent of over 65s have been vaccinated - the lowest in Greater Manchester aside from university areas.In stark contrast Hale Barns - one of the most affluent areas in the region - has the highest percentage of vaccinated adults in the region.Health

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straight to your inbox every day for freeIn his 13 years at Manchester United Luke Giverin's greatest moment came at the Etihad.Born in Salford and raised in a family of Reds, Giverin took particular satisfaction in scoring United's second goal in a 2-0 win over City in the Manchester Senior Cup final in May 2012.His injury-time goal secured victory and as he ran off to celebrate he was pulled to the ground by Paul Pogba and mobbed by his teammates.Rather than being the start of something,

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direct to your inboxThe NHS has confirmed the deaths of 18 more patients in hospitals in Greater Manchester who had tested positive for coronavirus.Nationally, a further 309 hospital deaths were reported on Thursday.Of those, 42 were in hospitals in the north west region.Six further deaths have been recorded at Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust, with five more at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust.Three further deaths were recorded at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust and at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh

direct to your inboxA queue of masked people - longer than it might be because everyone is socially distanced - snakes its way out of the Ebsworth Street car park in Moston where a new coronavirus testing centre has just gone live.They stand, patiently, waiting their turn.All of them are worried to varying degrees about a new strain of the virus, E484K, which has been detected in this part of north Manchester, prompting health officials to turn this small car park into a mass testing centre for

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direct to your inboxIt's been five days since people in south Manchester were warned of a new strain of coronavirus circulating in the community. Four cases of a new variant - officially named E484K - were discovered in two unconnected homes in Moss Side, prompting targeted the launch of a mass testing programme, known as surge testing, on Monday.

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direct to your inboxA new Covid-19 surge testing centre will be set up at Moss Side leisure centre after a new variant of coronavirus was discovered in the area.The facility is expected to open by Thursday along with a mobile testing unit at the Arrahman Mosque on Bedwell Street.Testing centres have already been established at Our Lady’s RC Church on Raby Street and in the car park of the Gurdwara Temple on Monton Street.More than 10,000 people are being offered immediate PCR tests after four

were identified in two households in the area in recent days.It is related to a strain first detected in Bristol last month, which is related to the UK's dominant strain identified in Kent towards the end of last year.Now, at least 10,000 people across homes and businesses will be offered free PCR tests in an effort to contain the virus.Testing units will be set up for walk-in appointments and home testing kits will also be offered by council workers knocking door-to-door in the affected

direct to your inboxThousands of people in Manchester are to be offered immediate Covid-19 tests after a new variant of the virus was identified in the area. Manchester City Council will be inviting everyone living or working within a specific footprint for tests from tomorrow after four cases of a new strain were identified in two households on Moss Side.

direct to your inboxMore than ten thousand people in Moss Side and neighbouring communities are to be offered immediate Covid-19 tests after a new variant of the virus was identified in the area.From tomorrow Manchester council will be inviting all over-16s living, working or studying within a specific footprint - including most of Moss Side and small parts of Whalley Range, Hulme and Fallowfield - for tests, after four cases of a new strain were identified in two unrelated households.Dedicated