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Facing up to life with HIV One year after he was diagnosed HIV positive, a gay man tells BBC News Online about the challenges of living with the virus. If circumstances change, our advice will also change - we will continue to put your safety first. These are external links and will open in a new window An annual project involving thousands of students in hundreds of UK schools 11 to 16-year-olds learn to be journalists throughout the year with the help of the BBC Pupils choose the stories and broadcast them for real each March on News Day A review of how schools teach citizenship found there was not enough emphasis on UK identity and history. Pupils in Scotland began returning to school on 11 August after being away since March. These are external links and will open in a new window A growing number of cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed among pupils and staff at Scottish schools.The Scottish government has stressed that these are part of community clusters which have had an impact on schools, rather than school-based clusters.It is not thought that the virus has been transmitted within schools. The return of pupils to schools in England this week will be a "massive milestone", says Education Secretary Gavin Williamson. Elsewhere in Lothian, contacts have been traced at Dalry Primary and nursery campus, Granton Primary School, Dalkeith High School and Lasswade High School.A nursery at Newburgh Primary school was closed after one person tested positive.NHS Fife said the individual was isolating at home with other household members.While a link between the confirmed case and the nursery was being investigated, there was no evidence to suggest onward transmission within the nursery at this stage, the health board added.All close contacts from the nursery have been informed and asked to self-isolate for 14 days.At Queen Anne High School in Dunfermline, class 2B2 and all those on the bus from the school to Kingseat on 28 August have been asked to stay at home on 1 September, after a pupil tested positive. "It is also likely to be the case that many parents will be erring on the side of caution in keeping their children off with cold symptoms at the present time. Here are details of the latest cases.Kingspark School in Dundee has been closed after a cluster of coronavirus cases connected to the school.

"This may be the result of pupils and staff being isolated from others for a prolonged period, with the result that the virus is spreading more quickly now than schools have re-opened," he added. 33 people have died in the UK in the past 24 hours.

Doing so could risk a resurgence of the virus and undermine our ability to get children back to school.

A pupil at Dalneigh Primary School, Inverness, tested positive for the virus.The school remained open, but the "small number" of pupils who had contact with the confirmed case were asked to isolate for 14 days.

The report, by Sir Keith Ajegbo, says pupils should study free speech, the rule of law, mutual tolerance and respect for equal rights. "In many cases children will be well enough to attend school and continue their learning with little or no interruption to their education," he said. BBC News Scotland Scotland's Covid-19 total rises by 123 in 24 hours The daily increase is the biggest in more than a week, but comes as testing reaches record levels. There were a further three linked cases in Lanarkshire who were not staff or pupils.There were 16 confirmed cases in north east Glasgow, with However, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has not disclosed the exact number due to patient confidentiality.Also in the NHS Greater Glasgow area, contact tracing was taking place at Pupils at Knightswood Primary have now been told by public health officials that they can return to school after a class was asked to self-isolate as a precaution. NHS Grampian said close contacts had been identified and advised to self isolate. Fife. The latest breaking news, comment and features from The Independent. These are external links and will open in a new windowMore than 100,000 pupils in Scotland are absent from school with attendance down to 84.5%, according to Scottish government figures.Data collected from local authorities shows that more than 15.5% pupils were off school last Friday.However, only 22,821 of the absences are recorded as "Covid-19 related".The Scottish government said it was common for other viral infections to circulate after a "prolonged break" away from school.Scotland's largest teaching union, the EIS, told BBC Scotland it believed many parents were "erring on the side of caution" and keeping children who had cold symptoms off school.Provisional figures from 28 August show that 84.5% of pupils in Scottish schools were present, down from a confirmed 95.8% attendance on 17 August.Attendance remained above 90% until 21 August, before dropping to 89.2% on 24 August following the weekend.During the last decade, attendance levels over the whole school year have been between 93% and 94%.About 3% of pupils were absent last Friday for a Covid-related reason, with 12.3% absent for non-Covid reasons, including pupil exclusions.A Covid-related absence includes a "positive test, showing symptoms, self-isolation, quarantining, and parents not sending their child to school against public health guidance".The Scottish government reported on Tuesday that almost 40,000 pupils had been tested for coronavirus since term started, with 117 positive results.Absentee rates are higher than usual - but not dramatically higher.In the week before schools closed in March, there were reports that between a third and a half of pupils at some schools were off.The numbers provide reassurance most children are going to school but may also suggest that some parents are being cautious about sending them if they are slightly unwell - for instance suffering from a cold.Earlier this week the Scottish government's national clinical director Dr Jason Leitch wrote an open letter to parents.In the letter he offered advice on what parents should do if children are suffering from bugs and colds.He said that in many cases children would be well enough to attend.But he also stressed that those with potential Covid 19 symptoms should self-isolate and get tested.

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