
Education & Training Feature: Should schools have been forced to close?
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With government forcing private schools to close temperatures are being raised across the country as many parents return to work and are unable to provide home online schooling. If the risk to children is unchanged (in other words very low) and there is evidence that teachers do not get more infected than the rest of the population, Michael Avery speaks to Nic Spaull - University of Stellenbosch about why schools are closed and most other businesses open? Children just less important than everyone else?