School leaders have slammed 'frankly ludicrous' government plans to roll-out rapid mass Covid testing across the country's 4,200 secondary schools in just days. 'Schools and colleges are very keen for rapid Covid tests to be available to staff and students, but the government's half-baked plan is simply not deliverable.' Students at secondary schools and colleges will be offered two rapid tests three days apart during the first week of term, with positive results confirmed by a lab-based PCR test. But the Government's plan ran into controversy for lacking detail and for having been announced as schools close for the Christmas holidays. The UK's four main teaching unions and the National Governance Association called the mass rapid testing scheme 'inoperable' and 'undeliverable'.

Source: Daily Mail December 29, 2020 11:09 UTC