Boris Johnson today urged parents to send children back to primary schools – but refused to rule out a full shutdown to control the mutant coronavirus strain. The PM insisted there is ‘no doubt in my mind’ that schools are ‘safe’ as he insisted there would be no further U-turn on reopening most primaries this week. However, pressed in a New Year interview on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show whether there will be a wider closure, he merely said everything was being kept ‘under review’. Challenged to guarantee that secondaries will be back up and running on January 18, Mr Johnson said he would be looking at the impact of the Tier 4 restrictions over the coming weeks. The premier also accepted that harsher measures will ‘probably’ be needed to contain the more infectious variant of the deadly virus, saying the situation was set to get ‘bumpy’. Asked what else the government might do to stabilise the situation, Mr Johnson said: ‘There are obviously a range of tougher measures that we would have to consider… School closures is one of those things.’ He insisted that vaccines were the way to get the UK out of the crisis, saying ‘tens of… Read full this story
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