Opening schools could see R rate rise to 1.5 - and 'rapid growth of coronavirus'

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OPENING schools could push the crucial R rate to 1.5 and lead to “rapid growth of the coronavirus”, one expert has claimed. The government is adamant that schools will reopen this Septe…

OPENING schools could push the crucial R rate to 1.5 and lead to "rapid growth of the coronavirus", one expert has claimed.⚠️ Read ourProfessor Neil Ferguson - who resigned from the Government's advisory group Sage - said the reproduction rate could increase if higher educational settings are opened.Prof Ferguson did however say that as long as the correct measures are in place at the school gates and if social interaction is limited in schools then the risk will be lower.

"Given that we are at R1 at the moment, clearly we don’t want it to go up to 1.5 or so, that would lead to quite rapid growth of the epidemic."is a key measure used to find out the rate at which one infected person is likely to spread coronavirus. "I think the concern is with secondary schools, teenagers, further education colleges and universities where the evidence is not certain but it looks like older teenagers can transmit just as well as adults.

"But there will have to be some tightening up of restrictions in other areas to maintain an overall low enough level of contacts so we don’t see levels of transmission increasing", he added.He said he agreed with comments made byin which he said that the country is at its limit when it comes to easing restrictions in other areas.

Looking towards the winter and Prof Ferguson said it's likely that things could get "quite difficult".

 

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