Published:
9:30 AM February 27, 2021
Government advisers decided against prioritising school and college staff in crowded classrooms in the next phase of the vaccine rollout.
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Education unions have been left disappointed after government advisers decided against prioritising school and college staff in crowded classrooms in the next phase the vaccine rollout.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) concluded that vaccinating in order of age - starting with people aged 40 to 49 - remains the quickest way to cut deaths.
Reopening schools will see repeat rapid testing of pupils to be conducted in schools when they return, before switching to home tests.
South Wootton Infant School deputy head, Rebecca Burt, gets a negative Covid-19 test result.
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Mass Covid testing for both teachers and support staff has begun to be rolled out in primary schools with future plans for parents to test children at home.
Under revised rules, the Government has suggested that all primary school teachers be tested for the virus twice a week with what is known as lateral flow tests.
South Wootton Infant School deputy head teacher, Rebecca Burt taking her Covid-19 self-test.
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The voluntary tests are designed to detect the virus in people who show no outward symptoms but could be contagious.
Georgia teen returns home after prison sentence for violating COVID-19 quarantine
Updated Jan 18, 2021;
Zachary Hansen, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (TNS)
ATLANTA After spending more than a month in a Cayman Islands prison for breaking COVID-19 quarantine rules, a metro Atlanta teenager is back home, according to Channel 2 Action News.
Skylar Mack, 18, of Loganville, arrived at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Friday, where she reunited with her mother, the news station reported.
Mack and her boyfriend, Vanjae Ramgeet, were charged after Mack broke the county’s strict 14-day quarantine rules to watch Ramgeet, 24, participate in a water sports competition. She removed a location tracking device from her wrist in order to attend the November event.
American teen Skylar Mack admits she made a conscious decision to violate Cayman Islands quarantine rules in her first interview since 32-day jail stint
Georgia teen Skylar Mack, 18, who was jailed for 32 days on the Cayman Islands, returned back to the US on Friday
It eats me up, she said of the decision to break the mandatory quarantine, appearing in her first interview since being released
Mack had traveled to the Cayman Islands on November 27 and was required by the government to quarantine for 14 days
She broke her quarantine two days later to see her boyfriend 24-year-old Vanjae Ramgeet compete in a jet ski competition
Skylar Mack, 18, of Loganville, arrived at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport on Friday, where she reunited with her mother, the news station reported.