Government urged to support parents if schools close due to Covid 

Labour leader Alan Kelly said that parents or guardians should be entitled to take paid leave for the duration of the time a class is sent home, or a school is closed. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland

The Government has been told to take urgent action to help cover the cost of parents remaining at home should children have to isolate after a confirmed case of Covid-19 was identified in a Dublin school.

A further 217 cases of the virus were reported yesterday — the largest daily increase since May.