The UK government is sticking to its original plan for students in England to start returning to school next week, although the plan is under review, a senior cabinet minister said on Monday. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been determined to keep children in school since September, after schools reopened from a shutdown that had begun on March 20. But, after a more infectious variant of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus was identified in England, Johnson refused to rule out a second school closure. Michael Gove, the second most senior minister in the cabinet, told Sky News on Monday that the back-to-school plan in England hasn’t changed. From Jan. 4, “our plan is that primary schools will go back,” Gove said. For secondary schools, “only children in year 11 and year 13, that’s those who are doing their GCSEs, their BTECs, their A-levels, those will go back,” he added, “and …