Families with children in school or college will be able to test themselves for Covid twice a week from home - under plans for schools to safely reopen in England.
Free tests will be provided to pupils' households, as well as those in their childcare or support bubbles, regardless of whether anyone has symptoms, the Government said on Sunday.
Schools and colleges are set to reopen on March 8 in the first phases of bringing the country out of lockdown. The rapid tests will be ordered and collected from local sites or administered through workplace testing programmes, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said.