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Professor Adam Finn, from Bristol University, said the decision hinged on whether children would be benefitted by the vaccine
British children may only be asked to get Covid vaccines if the spread of the virus threatens to shut schools once again, a Government vaccine adviser said today.
Professor Adam Finn, who sits on the advisory committee that decided the jab priority list, claimed the decision hinged on whether it would keep things functioning normally across society .
He told BBC Radio 4 s Today programme: One would not really be comfortable with immunising children entirely for the benefit of others and not for the children.
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Absence rates for primary school teachers with Covid-19 were six times higher in England than for children in the same settings, an analysis suggests.
Teacher absences due to a confirmed case of coronavirus were up to three times higher in secondary schools than those of pupils, according to research from the Education Policy Institute (EPI) think tank.
It is highly likely that more teachers had a confirmed case of Covid-19 during the autumn term than the wider adult population, but more government data is needed to confirm this, the report says.
Approximately 0.5 per cent to 0.9 per cent of primary teachers in England were absent due to a confirmed Covid-19 case during the autumn term.