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England is still planning a staggered return for secondary school pupils after the Christmas holidays, but this may change following the spread of a new strain of coronavirus in England, cabinet minister Michael Gove has said.
The current plan is for students taking GCSEs and A-levels this year, alongside the children of key workers, to return to school next week, with other secondary school students returning the week after. However, Gove suggested this could be changed.
The president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine in the UK has warned hospitals were “wall to wall” with Covid-19 patients on Christmas Day.
“We see patients who are coming in who have Covid symptoms and then we have other people coming in with other symptoms who turn out to be Covid positive,” Dr Katherine Henderson told BBC Breakfast. “Between that, there’s a great deal of difficulty getting those patients through into the wards.”
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