Covid-19: Isolation exemption and contact testing 'cuts' school absences
Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Friday morning. We'll have another update for you this evening.Daily testing for coronavirus is being introduced in a bid to keep the food industry moving. From today, staff working inmaking them exempt from the 10-day self-isolation period. They can continue to work providing they test negative regardless of whether they've been vaccinated.
Daily testing of school pupils who are a close contact with someone who has Covid is aIt doesn't lead to the virus spreading, Oxford researchers say, and has the potential to reduce school absences by up to 39%. England is due to remove the requirement for children and adults to self-isolate if they are close contacts of someone who tests positive from mid-August while the Scottish government is reviewing its approach.
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