One in 10 schools had between 40 and 60 per cent of students attending during the first week of the new lockdown, a National Association of Headteachers poll found.
Britain could have suffered 120,000 Covid deaths by the time No10 can safely ease restrictions because enough of the country has been vaccinated, experts fear
Department of Health statistics show the UK s Covid-19 death toll already stands at 81,000 since March
But experts fear another 30,000 deaths are already baked into the figures because of December cases
And deaths are unlikely to peak until February 16, four weeks after coronavirus cases will do the same