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Ex-Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt calls for teachers to get Covid-19 test twice weekly

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Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt has called for teachers to be tested for coronavirus twice a week. Mr Hunt said the move would "really give people confidence" that schools were safe for children to be going back to.

It came after former SAGE advisor and epidemiologist Professor Neil Ferguson called for “rapid testing” to be introduced in schools, using a similar model to that used in Germany.

The Commons Health Committee chairman told BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme: “I think [Professor Ferguson] is right, and the reason he is right is that we know something now we didn’t know back in January, which is that about 70% of the people who transmit coronavirus don’t have any symptoms at all and so that makes it much harder to get public

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