Matt Hancock explains what he meant when he said Leicester kids had been 'highly impacted' by virus
manchestereveningnews.co.ukhere"However, we have sent in a lot of extra testing into Leicester the last 10 days or so and one of the things we have found is there are a lot of under 18s who have tested positive and therefore, because children can transmit the disease, although they are highly unlikely to become ill from the disease, we think the safest thing we can do is close the schools."When pressed on why the schools are not shutting immediately, Mr Hancock said they have given parents two days to make childcare arrangements to prevent parents 'gathering around the schoolgates trying to work out what has happened' this morning.Mr Hancock said elsewhere in the country children in Reception, Year One and Year Six should continue to attend school.He added: "It is an.
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