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Second Wave of Corona is Threat for Children

Children are now more likely than adults to be the person bringing a Covid infection into a household.

But families with children are at no higher risk of severe illness.

The exact role children play in transmitting coronavirus has long been an open question.

It’s clear young people as a group are at very low risk of becoming seriously ill from the virus themselves.

From around the time schools reopened in September, a rising number of children have been testing positive for coronavirus, according to the advisory group.

But the paper said the extent to which transmission was occurring in schools was “unproven and difficult to establish”.

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