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 asymptomatic testing units are being made available in the area and six teams of council staff, volunteers, councillors and community leaders will also begin door-knocking to provide testing kits.The testing units will include one at Our Lady’s RC.