We asked experts what the fall term taught us about coronavirus transmission in schools, how new variants of COVID-19 affect the risks of those transmissions and what measures are needed for in-person classrooms across Canada to open and stay open. Here's what they said:What's the risk of returning to in-person school now? What did we learn last term about school transmission? Thampi cautioned however about the need to consider the school disruptions that may arise from an increase in testing students. Reopening all in-person schools successfully will likely require stricter government restrictions on gathering, coupled with other measures, the experts said.

Source: CBC News January 12, 2021 09:00 UTC