Mum facing prosecution after keeping daughter off school for two years due to covid fears
dailyrecord.co.ukA mum who says she is terrified of catching Covid is facing prosecution after keeping her daughter off school for two years.
Lisa Diaz says she fears her daughter, Helena, could be in serious danger if she returns to primary school and has not sent her for more than 20 months since the onset of the pandemic, reports Manchester Evening News.
Lisa, from Wigan, says the risk of her catching Covid and long Covid could be severe, so she has kept her daughter home - leading Wigan Council to threaten her with prosecution.Mum of two, Lisa, a member of Safe Education For All, told Good Morning Britain today: "Our concern is that Covid harms children.
We are seeing a record number of hospitalisations of children with Covid.""Independent SAGE said that there have been more hospitalisations in children in the last three weeks than the entire first wave of the pandemic so the narrative that Omicron is mild is just a fairytale."According to UK Health and Security Agency we've had 128 children die from Covid and honestly my greatest fear as a parent is that my children will end up with long Covid."However, the Government says children should be going to school wherever possible, and has committed to keeping schools open.From the start of the pandemic scientists have said the symptoms of Covid in children are much milder than those in adults.And it appears the symptoms of Omicron are much milder than previous variants.Previously it was suggested Omicron could kill 75,000 people in the UK - but so far just 14 deaths have been recorded.
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