Door-to-door “surge testing” for the CCP virus is to be carried out in eight local areas in England after several cases of the South Africa variant emerged that could not be traced to travel from the country. Those cases are the first in the UK of community transmission of the variant, which is more transmissible and is thought to be more resistant to some vaccines. Surrey Council earlier announced it was introducing surge testing after the emergence of two cases. The Department of Health and Social Care later confirmed that other cases had emerged in London, Walsall in the West Midlands, Hertfordshire, Essex, near Maidstone in Kent, and near Preston in Lancashire. “Every person over 16 living in these locations is strongly encouraged to take a Covid test this week, whether they are showing symptoms or not,” said the Department of Health in a statement to the Epoch Times. “Mobile …