New Covid-19 contact-tracing regime to be established for schools

It has advised that rapid antigen and other alternatives should only be used to enhance the current system of PCR testing.The Government, meanwhile, insists schools remain a safe environment for children and will reopen as planned after the mid-term break.has said latest data on testing shows positivity rates for close contacts of individuals diagnosed with Covid-19 are much lower in schools compared to the wider community.

This represents a positivity rate of 2.8 per cent compared to more than 7 per cent in the wider community. It says its figures are based on school notices, which have been sent to parents on foot of Covid-19 cases. At primary level, the group has recorded 320 notices from schools alerting parents to at least one case of Covid-19, representing 10 per cent of primary schools.

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