A mum is being threatened with prosecution after keeping her daughter off school for 20 months over coronavirus fears.
Lisa Diaz, who worries her children could be in serious danger from Covid and Long Covid, has not sent her little girl to primary school for almost two years.
However, she is now facing legal action from Wigan council over her daughter's 'poor attendance record', Wales Online reports.
The mum-of-two, who is a member of Safe Education for All, spoke of her decision on Good Morning Britain earlier today (January 10).
She said: "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 Secuty 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."
The Government has said that children should be going to school wherever possible, and has said it will endeavour to keep 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.
Lisa has a vulnerability due to a rare blood condition.
Lisa told the World Socielist Website: “Wigan Council, at the instigation of Woodfield Primary School, is maliciously threatening me with prosecution. The letter says my daughter’s ‘poor attendance record’ gives ‘cause for concern’. But the spread of COVID in schools doesn’t cause any concern apparently."
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