Shielding mum 'has no choice' but to send daughter to school despite virus fears

mirror.co.uk:

A mum with an immune system disorder says she feels she has "no choice" but to send her daughter back to school despite fears she will bring home coronavirus.

Jennifer East, from Clacton-on-Sea in Essex, has been shielding because she has common variable immunodeficiency. The condition leaves her vulnerable to the effects of Covid-19.

She fears it is "really not safe" for her 11-year-old girl Tayla to "open the bubble" when she starts secondary school again on Friday, as pupils in England head back into classrooms. "I feel like I have no choice.

Like the Government are saying I have to do it or get fined," Ms East told the PA news agency. The Government has faced calls to scrap fines for parents who do not send their children back due to