'People who have had an organ transplant, cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy or radiotherapy, people with blood cancers and severe respiratory diseases should 'shield themselves for 12 weeks,' says the BBC's Fergus Walsh
There was a sense of inevitability as Boris Johnson arrived at today’s press conference, alongside his scientific advisers.
News had already emerged that Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland were closing schools. Now it’s been confirmed that England will do the same. And with exams also being postponed , children and families face agonising uncertainty – and a situation that we could never have envisaged just a short while ago.Boris Johnson maintains there has always been a"trade-off" - because while closing schools may help suppress the transmission of the virus it could also take key workers, who have children, out of action.
They’ve moved to mitigate that effect with school provision for those workers. And, as ever, drilling down into the detail of what’s been announced today, and how these measures will really work, will be vitally important. But the big picture – that ministers have moved to close the country’s schools in this way – is unprecedented. Going to school or sending your kids off to get their education is intrinsically woven into the fabric of people’s lives. And there has always been a sense from ministers that they were reluctant to go down this road before it became absolutely necessary.
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