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LIVE: updates as schools 'could remain closed until after Easter'

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  • - Education Secretary Gavin Williamson is widely expected to confirm this week that there will be no return to the classroom after the February half-term break as ministers had hoped
  • - Over the weekend, Health Secretary Matt Hancock refused to guarantee that they would be back before Easter, saying that infection rates would need to come down further.
  • - A further 32 vaccination centres are opening across England as the rollout programme continues to ramp up
  • - Latest Government figures showed more than 6.3 million people across the UK have received their first dose of the vaccine – with a record-breaking 491,970 being injected in a single day over the weekend

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