Children have been forced into isolation after teaching staff from at least two schools were infected with coronavirus, prompting condemnation from parents.
A class of infants in Reading and primary school pupils in the Cotswolds were among those facing a fortnight indoors as the effects of the devastating outbreak in Italy reached the UK.
Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, sought to quell rising concern about the risk the virus posed to classrooms, saying he felt schools should still operate normally "as far as possible".
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