Cumbrian education reacts as Government pauses testing in schools
Daily testing for Covid-19 is to be paused in schools due to new health advice and the emergence of a new variant of the virus. A spokesperson for the Government said: “Since the announcement of the schools testing programme in December, we have seen the emergence of a new variant of the virus which has become dominant in the UK. “The variant has been shown to have increased transmissibility and causes higher secondary attack rates.” The spokesperson added that given the variant “has higher rates of transmission and hence generates a higher secondary attack rate – and that t...
Source: timesandstar.co.uk