No Plan to Shut Schools Before Christmas Break: UK Minister

No Plan to Shut Schools Before Christmas Break: UK Minister
Students in a classroom of a school in England, on March 8, 2021. Danny Lawson/PA
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The UK government plans to keep schools open until the Christmas holidays despite the detection of the Omicron COVID-19 variant in the country, a minister said on Wednesday.

When asked whether schools will be kept open, Children’s Minister Will Quince told the Education Committee of the House of Commons, “That is certainly our plan and we want to see schools stay open.”