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The government has revealed��the Covid hostpot areas��where primary schools will remain closed for at least two weeks from Monday.

The��majority of primary schools will open as planned��on Monday 4 January.

But in a small number of areas��where the infection rates are highest, only vulnerable pupils��and children of critical workers will attend face to face.

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These “contingency framework”��areas are as follows:

London

• Barking and Dagenham
• Barnet
• Bexley
• Brent
• Bromley
• Croydon
• Ealing
• Enfield
• Hammersmith and Fulham
• Havering
• Hillingdon
• Hounslow
• Kensington and Chelsea
• Merton
• Newham
• Redbridge
• Richmond-Upon-Thames
• Southwark
• Sutton
• Tower Hamlets
• Waltham Forest
• Wandsworth
• Westminster

Essex

• Brentwood
• Epping Forest
• Castle Point
• Basildon
• Rochford
• Harlow
• Chelmsford
• Braintree
• Maldon
• Southend on Sea
• Thurrock

Kent

• Dartford
• Gravesham
• Sevenoaks
• Medway
• Ashford
• Maidstone
• Tonbridge and Malling
• Tunbridge Wells
• Swale

East Sussex

• Hastings
• Rother

Buckinghamshire

• Milton Keynes

Hertfordshire

• Watford
• Broxbourne
• Hertsmere
• Three Rivers