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UK government ditches advice on masks at English schools

by Associated Press
| August 26, 2020 12:03 AM

LONDON (AP) — Following mounting pressure to change tack, the British government decided late Tuesday to ditch advice that high school students and staff in England don't need to wear face masks when schools reopen from next week.

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