The Daily Star's FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inboxSchool kids will be back in the classrooms in January with teachers doing coronavirus tests, a cabinet member said.It comes following fears that schools might be closed until February to stem the spread of a mutant strain of coronavirus.Communities secretary Robert Jenrick has now confirmed plans to have classes start up again after Christmas.He said kids will be taught in person "in the first few weeks of January", The Metro reported.Asked on the BBC if schools would reopen, the senior minister replied: "Yes they will do.