Primary schools should stop sending children home and making them self-isolate when they have the sniffles, leading paediatricians argue. They said the ‘risk-averse’ approach meant children will miss ‘significant quantities of schooling’ over winter. Currently any child with symptoms – as well as those they have been in contact with – has to self-isolate. Primary schools should stop sending children home and making them self-isolate when they have the sniffles, leading paediatricians argue. Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield has previously spoken of the ‘chaos’ in some schools.

Source: Daily Mail November 30, 2020 00:41 UTC