Teachers (Extra Protections and Testing)

Part of the debate – in the Scottish Parliament at on 10 February 2021.

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Photo of Nicola Sturgeon Nicola Sturgeon Scottish National Party

We are delivering asymptomatic testing to schools. That is in progress as we speak, in advance of some gradual, phased return to school—we hope, although that has to be confirmed next week—later this month.

I will happily take the issue away and have discussions about whether there is more that we can do for the particular groups on top of that, but there is no doubt that testing has a key role to play in trying to identify cases of the virus and get people into isolation as quickly as possible.