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All households with children of school age to get 2 rapid COVID-19 tests per person per week
Press release
Whole families and households with primary school, secondary school and college age children, including childcare and support bubbles, will be able to test themselves twice every week from home as schools return from 8 March.
Our vaccination programme is a national success story
Statement to Parliament
Oral statement by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the impact of the vaccine roll-out, and efforts to contain the new variant of concern first identified in Manaus in Brazil.
Further targeted areas will have additional testing made available to control and suppress the potential spread of the COVID-19 variant first identified in South Africa.
National lockdown: Stay at Home
Guidance
Coronavirus cases are rising rapidly across the country. Find out what you can and cannot do.
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