Hancock insists schools safe despite 'unusual' number of children with virus in Leicester
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mirror.co.ukLeicester has an ‘unusually high’ incidence of coronavirus in children, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said. But he insisted it was safe for children to go to school.
The city will see the UK's first full-scale local lockdown from today, with schools and non-essential shops forced to shut all over again.
People in the city have been told to stay in their homes and make only essential travel after cases spiralled in a new coronavirus outbreak.
He added: "We have sent in a lot of extra testing into Leicester over the last 10 days or so and one of the things we have found is that there are under 18s who have tested positive and therefore, because children can transmit the disease - even though they are highly unlikely to get ill from the
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