The Minister for Education has said the signs are very positive that the rest of school students can return to the classroom after the Easter break.
Norma Foley said the return to school is going very well and the contact tracing positivity rate in schools is currently at 2.4%, compared to 10% in the community.
She said the reopening of schools has been hugely positive and has given society as a whole an enormous boost. Latest figures show that 1,842 tests for Covid-19 were carried out in 108 schools in the seven days from 7-13 March.
The number of detected cases of the virus in that period across all schools was 44. Latest coronavirus stories On Monday, around 350,000 children and teenagers returned to their classrooms as the phased