UK PM urges parents to send children to school

Bloomberg

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged parents to send their children back to school when they reopen in England next week, amid growing concern among some teachers and union officials that it’s not safe to do so.
“Now is the time to get pupils back into school, give them the chances they need to build the necessary bedrock for their academic futures,” Johnson said. “The risks are very, very, very small that they’ll even get it, but then the risks that they’ll suffer form it badly are very, very small indeed.”
Pupils were sent home in the coronavirus chaos of mid-March, and most haven’t been back since. Without parents back at work, there’s scant hope of emerging from the continent’s deepest economic slump. And with Johnson’s government reeling from a succession of blunders in dealing with the pandemic, the stakes are high to get school reopenings right.
The country’s chief medical officers said that the Covid-19 fatality rate among those ages 5 to 14 is lower than most seasonal flu infections.