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Increase in school absences
More than one in five secondary school pupils and one in eight primary school pupils were absent from school last week, new figures from the Department for Education show.
Overall, 876,000 pupils did not attend school last week for reasons related to coronavirus, the report states.
Three quarters (73 per cent) of secondary schools had pupils self-isolating up from two thirds (64 per cent) the week before and almost a third of primary schools (29 per cent) had pupils self-isolating, up from a fifth (22 per cent ) the week before.
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