GAVIN Williamson has said it’s now a “national priority” to make sure kids return to school next month.
A day after Boris Johnson said it was the country’s “moral duty” to get kids back to class, the Education Secretary welcomed a study by Public Health England that shows there is little evidence of Covid-19 spread in schools.
Meanwhile, Britain’s economy will officially be declared in recession this week for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis, as the coronavirus pandemic plunges the UK into the deepest slump on record.
Figures from the Office for National Statistics on Wednesday are expected to show gross domestic product (GDP), the broadest measure of economic prosperity, fell in the three months to June by 21 per cent.
Economists consider two consecutive quarters of shrinking GDP as the technical definition of a recession.
The UK saw a decline of 2.2 per cent in the first quarter.
This comes as deaths hit 46,574 after 8 deaths yesterday.
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