Schools are being disrupted as much now as at any point in the pandemic, teachers warn.
The union's deputy general secretary Rebecca Williams told the BBC's Politics Wales programme: "It's still very chaotic and stressful despite everybody's best attempts and all the precautions that are being taken.
The routine asymptomatic testing of school staff and secondary school pupils is due to end at the start of the Easter holidays."We've got a widespread problem with Covid in schools because of this absenteeism so now is not the time to ease off on the main mitigations that we need to maintain in schools such as testing and face coverings."
"It adds additional stress and we don't need that at the moment," NAHT Cymru president Kerina Hanson said.Meilir Tomos, headteacher of Ysgol Glan Morfa in Splott, Cardiff, said: "The last two years have been difficult but I feel that the last couple of weeks have been even more challenging.
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