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Offer weekly voluntary COVID-19 tests for secondary pupils and staff

Submitted by Karen Julie Astbury on Wednesday 19th August 2020

Published on Tuesday 1st September 2020

Current status: Closed

Closed: Monday 1st March 2021

Signatures: 38

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Children ~ Covid ~ Covid-19 ~ Covid-19 testing ~ Covid-19 tests ~ Education ~ Full Time ~ Schools ~ Staff ~ Test ~ testing ~ Tests ~ Time ~ virus

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Offer weekly voluntary COVID-19 tests for secondary pupils and staff

Petition Details

The government should offer all secondary aged pupils and school staff a weekly COVID-19 test, ideally the less intrusive, lower cost saliva test.

Additional Information

Recent research appears to show secondary aged pupils spread the virus like adults. I appreciate it is important for children to be in full time education however with schools being advised that social distancing of pupils is not necessary I worry that with many older pupils (Year 10/11) in bubbles of 200-250 they could cause local outbreaks of Covid-19. We hope secondary pupils will not suffer badly from this virus, however they could pass it onto vulnerable family members and elderly relatives


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