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At the Downing Street press briefing, the prime minister’s official spokesperson has echoed Boris Johnson by saying that the intention is to “start getting” pupils back to school on 8 March, but adding that doing so would be dependent on the evolving evidence on infection rates. Johnson is due to set out a roadmap for the path out of lockdown on Monday 22 February.
The spokesperson said: “It’s our intention to start getting kids back to school from March 8.” But when pressed if all students would be back on that date, he said: “It’s important that we undertake the review this week, we always said that we’d carry out the review this week and we would set out all the details in the road map [next] Monday.
One in four people in Wales have received their first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, the health minister, Vaughan Gething, has said.
Gething told a press conference in Cardiff that take-up of the vaccine in the first four priority groups in Wales had been “incredibly high”. He said people in priority groups five to nine in Wales should be offered a vaccine appointment by the end of April.
