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08/25/2020

Coronavirus: Are Teachers More at Risk?

Some say, "no"

Children in England and Wales are due to go back to the classroom in September. In Scotland, where pupils have already returned, 21 staff at a Dundee school have been linked to a cluster of coronavirus cases - raising concerns about the safety of teachers.

Are teachers at higher risk?
While children are extremely unlikely to be made ill by coronavirus, adult staff are at greater risk.

A Public Health England study, carried out when many schools had not yet re-opened, suggested staff were more likely to catch the virus from each other, or from elsewhere, than they were from pupils.

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