Covid-19: School singing ban in NI 'should be overturned'

Choirs were allowed to sing indoors during the term from September to December, as long as social distancing and good ventilation were in place. But in a statement to BBC News NI, the Public Health Agency (PHA) said the more transmissible "Kent variant" had not been prominent when schools were fully open in the autumn. The instruction from Education Minister Peter Weir also banned playing wind instruments, such as recorders or flutes, and brass instruments, such as trumpets, indoors.
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