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4:05 PM January 27, 2021
Updated:
5:31 PM January 27, 2021
Geoff Barton, former headteacher of King Edward VI School in Bury St Edmunds, said the reopening must be safe and sustainable
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Education leaders in Suffolk and north Essex have welcomed the government s decision to give schools two weeks notice before reopening.
Prime minister Boris Johnson announced on Wednesday that schools could reopen on March 8 at the earliest - providing the current speed of the coronavirus vaccine rollout is maintained.
Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Johnson said the government would set out plans for a gradual and phased route out of lockdown on February 22, describing the return of students to classrooms as the first sign of normality .
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Britain toughened its coronavirus restrictions on Tuesday, with England and Scotland going into lockdown and shutting schools, as surging cases have added to fears of a new virus variant.
The public has been ordered to stay at home and work remotely if possible, and only to go out for essential shopping, medical reasons or to exercise.
Justifying the measures, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said more than one million people in England or two percent of the population now had the virus.
A further 60,916 people tested positive in the last 24 hours across the country on Tuesday, while the number of people in hospital was now 40 percent higher than at the April peak last year.
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