Coronavirus: How to keep children and staff safe when schools reopen

By Jessica Hamzelou

Pupils returning to school wear face masks and stay distanced in Bangkok

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SCHOOLS across England and the US are about to reopen their doors to students who have been at home for months thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. What is the best way to keep children, and school staff and parents, safe?

Many of these schools closed towards the end of March as cases surged in both the UK and the US. Given how little we knew about the coronavirus at the time, closing schools was the right thing to do, say the researchers contacted by New …