Coronavirus live: more than 100,000 English schoolchildren off with Covid; Norway and Portugal to give booster jabs to over-65s



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England: more than 100,000 children off school with Covid

More than 100,000 children in England are off school with confirmed cases of Covid, according to the fortnightly Department for Education figures just published.

The proportion of children at school has fallen below 90% – worse than this time a year ago – and the number off school for Covid-related reasons is up by 66% – 204,000 off in total for Covid, compared with 122,000 two weeks ago when the last stats came out.

In total 186,000 are off with suspected or confirmed Covid cases.

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Portugal to give booster jabs to everyone over 65

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