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'Alarming' there's no paper trail for school decision says MHK

Edge told school move was based on 'verbal updates'

An Onchan MHK says it’s ‘alarming’ that government was presented with no written advice that it was safe to open schools at the start of this month.

Julie Edge asked the chief minister to publish the guidance the Council of Ministers had received on Sunday, 28 February.

Howard Quayle confirmed CoMin had ‘noted verbal updates’ in relation to testing data and emerging cases of unknown origin.

Ms Edge told Manx Radio's Tessa Hawley; there should have been a paper trail:

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