Into the debate about the full reopening schools across the UK comes some good news from Public Health England (PHE), confirming that children and adolescents are at minimal risk of Covid-19. This makes one thing clear: reopening schools after the summer break does not represent a significant Covid-19 risk to children and teenagers themselves. Here the science is less certain, but emerging evidence does suggest the risk is manageable, and of much less harm than keeping schools closed. It is certainly true that many (probably most) childhood infections with the Covid-19 virus cause no symptoms. Given the very limited reopening of secondary schools before the summer holidays the situation in teenagers is less certain.

Source: The Guardian August 18, 2020 06:00 UTC