School return may be safer than we think
As almost one million children return to schools across the country, anxiety about Covid-19 is high, but international evidence about the risk of infection is reassuring
As Irish classrooms started to fill with children last week it was a very different experience to when they closed over five months ago.
There were staggered start times, class pods, social distancing, sanitiser stations, mask-wearing in secondary schools and among adults, excited children and anxious parents and teachers.
The big questions are: will all schools remain open and what happens in the event of an outbreak of Covid-19?
Ireland is closely following both the ...
