(ANSA) - LONDON, JANUARY 03 - Post-Christmas reopening of schools confirmed in the United Kingdom in the coming days, despite Covid infections fueled by the new Omicron variant, but with a strengthening of health care protocols for boys: the government of Boris Johnson reiterates today for mouth of the Minister of Education, Nadhim Zahawi, specifying that even in England - by far the largest nation of the Kingdom - will be introduced not only the already announced obligation to mask in the classroom for middle and high school students, but also that of a negative test to return from the holidays and a double weekly check-up pad for everyone.
Zahawi stressed that the imposition of the alection masks will remain in effect only "as long as strictly necessary", with a deadline currently set at 26 January. And that the test kits will be provided free of charge to the various institutes. The mask was already foreseen, like the swabs, in the schools of Scotland and Northern Ireland, where the local regional governments decide on health and education, while in Galless they will also fight at the resumption after Christmas with the only difference that the weekly tests will be 3.
The Johnson government has anticipated that the revision of the general rules on the Covid emergency, expected this week, will not even now involve the reintroduction of any new lockdown model restrictions, since the latest data "do not justify": given the decline in overall cases recorded yesterday (albeit to about 137,000) and the containment of deaths, in the face of a number of vaccines that have risen to about 35 million third booster doses already administered and a total of increasing hospitalizations, but for now far from the peaks of the first wave of the pandemic.
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