Covid-19: 'Incomprehensible' that schools remain fully open under level 5 lockdown

Teaching unions have hit out at suggestions that schools would remain open under increased restrictions. File Picture.

It is 'incomprehensible' that primary schools remain fully open at a time when infection levels are so high in the community that no indoor gatherings or events are allowed.

That is according to the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO), which has written to Minister for Education Norma Foley, in light of the recommendation from Nphet that the entire country to move to level 5 restrictions.