hereMeanwhile, Professor Neil Ferguson – who resigned from the government’s advisory group Sage – said ministers “need to plan for all contingencies” when it comes to the reopening of schools.Prof Ferguson told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I think it is important to say that not all schools are the same.
We have a lot of evidence now that primary schools, young children, pose very little risk of transmission.“I think the concern is with secondary schools, teenagers, further education colleges and universities where the evidence is still not certain, but it looks like older teenagers can transmit just as well as adults.“The risk then is that big schools, comprehensives, universities, FE colleges, link lots of households together,.
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