Disease Experts Support UK Schools Reopening in September

Disease Experts Support UK Schools Reopening in September
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson (L) talks with head teacher Bernadette Matthews (R) as he visits St Joseph's Catholic Primary School in Upminster, East London, on Aug. 10, 2020. Lucy Young/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
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Reopening schools in September is unlikely to cause a second wave of the CCP virus in the UK, because children rarely spread the disease, according to an infectious disease expert.

Emphasizing that he was speaking in a personal capacity, Mark Woolhouse, head of infectious disease epidemiology at Edinburgh University told the Daily Mail on Saturday that research shows low virus transmission rates of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus by children in schools.