Study shows no clear link between schools reopening and rise in Covid-19

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The Insights for Education study of 191 countries says lockdown closures will leave a ‘pandemic learning debt’ of 300-billion missed school days

Secondary school students at the College Henri Matisse school during its reopening in Nice on September 1 2020. Picture: REUTERS/ERIC GAILLARD

“It’s been assumed that opening schools will drive infections, and that closing schools will reduce transmission, but the reality is much more complex,” said IFE’s founder and CEO Randa Grob-Zakhary. In Britain and Hungary, however, infection levels dropped after initial school closures, remained low during the holidays, and began rising after reopening.

 

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