Covid-19: School absences rise and pets lonely as owners go back to work

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➡️ School Covid absences rise two-thirds in fortnight ➡️ Sturgeon apology over Covid passport app launch ➡️ Get off your Pelotons and back to work, says Conservative Party chairman Tuesday evening's coronavirus update

Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic this Tuesday evening. We'll have another update for you tomorrow morning.absent from England's state schools rose by two-thirds

in the fortnight to 30 September, reaching 204,000. About 2.5% of pupils were out of school for Covid-related reasons on that day, according to Department for Education figures. Liz Lord, deputy head teacher at a high school in West Yorkshire, says the sharp rise in cases since the start of term is worrying - but disruption is limited "because we're not sending kids around the person who is ill home to self-isolate any more".2.

- referring to the brand of exercise bikes. The former culture secretary said civil servants should "lead by example" by returning to the office, after a top civil servant reportedly said she preferred working from home because she could spend more time on her Peloton. A union representing civil servants said his comments were an "insult" to thousands of dedicated government workers.

 

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