Coronavirus
Schools Are on High Alert Over New Variants of Coronavirus
As new coronavirus variants pop up around the world, public health experts are looking at one key group of people who might be particularly vulnerable to future outbreaks: School children.
There are no indications that any of the new Covid-19 variants causes more serious disease in children and it remains extremely rare for them to become seriously ill. But outbreaks of the strain of the virus first found in India among British children have sparked some worries about the variant’s spread in schools.
The UK outbreaks are still relatively small, but they serve as a cautionary tale for countries across the world that are returning to in-person education.
