A primary school in Northern Ireland with a suspected case of coronavirus in one of its pupils has been denied permission to close by the North’s Department of Education, the school’s principal has said. The pupil at Ebrington Primary and Nursery School in Derry displayed no symptoms at school last week but became unwell over the weekend. This, he said, was “a similar story to many other primary schools in our city who had applied for the same”. The Minister for Education, the DUP MLA Peter Weir, previously said the time was not yet right to close schools. Ten new cases of coronavirus, also known as Covid-19, were diagnosed in Northern Ireland on Tuesday, bringing the total number of cases to 62.

Source: The Irish Times March 18, 2020 00:22 UTC