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Covid-19 update: Lockdown attainment gap could wipe out a decade of education gains

MPs waiting to vote on the motion of ‘Proceedings during the pandemic’ (Photo: UK Parliament)

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  • More Covid-19 deaths in Scotland have happened in care homes than hospitals, according to the National Records of Scotland. Details below.
  • A report from the Education Endowment Foundation finds that the attainment gap caused by shutting down schools could wipe out a decade of gains from education policy. Ross Clark has the details below.
  • The NHS test-and-trace programme is not tracing the contacts of at least 60% of people who test positive for Covid-19.
  • MPs have voted to end voting from home. At today’s PMQs, Boris Johnson offered MPs who are shielding the chance to vote by proxy, rather than just being paired.
  • Researchers at the Crick Institute have discovered dozens of blood proteins that can predict how ill someone will get from Covid-19.
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