Children should be disinfected at the school gates if they are forced to return in June, a union leader has said. Schools and colleges closed their doors to the majority of pupils, apart from the children of key workers and vulnerable youngsters, when the UK entered its coronavirus lockdown on March 23.
On Sunday night Prime Minister Boris Johnsonannounced the creation of a new five step "Covid Alert Level" system, similar to the way the UK monitors the threat level from terrorism.
Similar to systems already in place in countries like New Zealand, the level will be determined by 'R' (the rate of infection) and number of coronavirus cases within the UK. "In turn that Covid Alert Level will tell us how tough we have to be in our social