For the latest Tameside news sign up to the MyTameside newsletter here Surge coronavirus testing is to be carried out in Derbyshire, close to the border with Greater Manchester, after cases of the Indian variant were identified.
Everyone aged five and over who lives or works in the Gamesley area of the High Peak, which is near Glossop and close to the border with Tameside, is being strongly urged to take a PCR Covid test from tomorrow, June 3, whether they have symptoms or not.
It follows the discovery of a "small number" of confirmed cases of the B1.617.2 strain of the virus, often referred to as the Indian variant as that is where it was first discovered.