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Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service HQ during his visit to Belfast
TEACHERS condemned the government for being “negligent in the extreme” today after an analysis found that there were 30 outbreaks of coronavirus in English schools after they reopened.
The reopening of schools following the easing of national lockdown was associated with a total of 198 confirmed Covid-19 cases, 70 in children and 128 in staff, according to the report by Public Health England (PHE).
There was a “strong correlation” between community coronavirus incidence and risk of outbreaks in educational settings, even during a period of low Covid-19 incidence, the report said.
With 170,000 children living in poverty in north-east England and teachers leaving in droves over 20 per cent real-terms pay cuts since 2010, all while private companies siphon off billions, it is time to unite and fight for education, writes MATT WRACK