Leicester outbreak particularly affecting children?

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Mr Hancock told MPs in the House of Commons last night.'We've decided that from tomorrow, non-essential retail will have to close and as children have been particularly impacted by this outbreak, schools will also need to close from Thursday, staying open for vulnerable children and children of critical workers as they did throughout'.

And I keep reading that it doesn't spread in schools /amongst children.

However, schools mean lots of parents/grandparents doing pick up/drop off and mingling with teachers being in greater contact. It’s a difficult balance because children’s education is so important but so are the lives of the adults they are in contact with and who they in turn can pass the virus onto.

No reason to be stopping the kids with no contact with vulnerable family members from going to school though.
Also, there will be plenty of high risk people who'd rather risk their own lives than see the UK's children suffer like this. I'd be one of them.

There have been a lot more testing in Leicester and quite a few under 18s were found positive without symptoms.

@Enormouscroc you aren't likely to find a study which "proves" exactly how any one individual transmitted the virus to anyone else, are you? That sort of attitude is how people denied that AIDS existed, for ages.

All epidemiologists can do is look at the trends and spread, and the data which comes from PHE every Thursday is a good way to see which sectors of society are seeing a rise in outbreaks. You could also accept the SAGE committee's modelling of proposed spread under different school opening scenarios, or the alternative SAGE's modelling if you prefer a different opinion. They all say the same thing: wider school opening causes spread. It would be naive to think that children somehow played no part.

And I'm in favour of wider opening, once cases are low enough that we aren't opening and closing like yo-yos.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-covid-19-surveillance-reports