Health
Coronavirus lockdown warning amid fears R rate could soar above 1 when schools go back – Mirror Online
The infection risk for children is low, but with 453,000 teachers returning to work and parents congregating at school gates the scientists expect spikes in coronavirus cases
The UKs chief medical officers today warn the corona R rate could leap above 1 when kids return to school fuelling fears of more local lockdowns.
Professor Chris Whitty and his colleagues stressed there were no risk-free options and that sending pupils back to class had to be weighed up against keeping them away.
The R, or reproduction, number is scientists way of rating a diseases ability to spread.
If it goes above 1 it means each person with the virus will infect more than one other, rever…
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