Supervised Covid tests return to schools as Greater Manchester steps up response to variant
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukSign up to the M.E.N.'s Manchester Family newsletter for all the latest from school closures to ways to entertain the kids Pupils across Greater Manchester will be tested in schools and colleges once again in a bid to tackle the rise of the Indian variant.
Heath Secretary Matt Hancock announced today that the government is 'providing a strengthened package of support' - similar to what Bolton has already seen - to the other nine areas of the region.
Part of the plan is for supervised in-school testing, to make sure students are actually doing the lateral flow tests that pick up on asymptomatic cases.
This was something secondary and college students did during the first two weeks after they returned in March, before being asked to carry on
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