Children ‘should stay at school unless there is a positive test in their bubble’
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Groups of pupils should only be sent home from school if there has been a positive coronavirus test, rather than someone just developing symptoms, Boris Johnson has said.
He said said it would be ‘wrong’ for a whole class to be sent home if one student developed a cough or fever and advised schools to wait until the coronavirus test result before telling bubbles to self-isolate.
‘The reasons for sending a class or a bubble home would be if somebody tests positive,’ he told MPs at a liaisons committee.
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