Chief Medical Officer examining introduction of antigen testing in primary schools

Detailed arrangements for the antigen testing programme will be available soon, stakeholders have been told.

Detailed arrangements for an antigen testing programme in primary schools will be available soon, the education stakeholders have been told.

At a meeting this morning, the teaching unions and school management bodies were told that the Chief Medical Officer has asked for an urgent examination of introducing antigen testing of close contacts “in specific circumstances” in primary schools.