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COVID-19: Families of school-aged children to get two rapid tests a week

Anyone living with school-aged children in England will be entitled to two rapid coronavirus tests a week when pupils return to the classroom, the government has said.

All secondary school and college students will be tested twice a week when they go back on 8 March, according to the prime minister’s roadmap out of lockdown.

But now ministers are promising all members of their households twice-weekly swabs as well.

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