School headteachers call for help with Covid testing programme

[ASFN Admin]

Headteachers today called for further help to roll out Covid-19 testing in secondary schools as they raised concerns about using volunteers to swab children. The Government has said teachers will not be tasked with testing 5.5 million children and that the roll-out would be led by agency workers and volunteers. To add to the issues facing schools, leading scientist Professor Neil Ferguson today warned that the new mutant strain of the coronavirus “may infect children slightly more effectively than previous variants”.

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