New Covid rules mean kids could be banned from school for ten days even if test is wrong
, with a huge mass testing operation under way and extra Covid precautions in place.
"That is a whole extra layer of keeping Covid out of the classroom, but we need to also set this aside against a very different backdrop to in January. "There will be some students who will be exempt from wearing masks and we haven't made it mandatory though we're strongly encouraging it. He said: "It's very plausible, in fact I think very likely, that we will keep the R below one with schools open with these mitigations in place.
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