UK Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove has said he is “confident that children and teachers will be safe” when returning to schools in England adding that the reopening would be “staged and careful”.
“Children will have to be distanced,” he said on BBC One’s Andrew Marr Show. “We can do that by making sure we have staggered lunch breaks and staggered arrivals.”
Asked if he could guarantee that no teacher would get the virus, he replied: “There is always, always, always a risk of people catching the coronavirus – the key thing is we can make these workplaces safe.”
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He also said it was “extremely unlikely that any school will be a source of a [Covid-19] outbreak” and suggested that councils that were worried should “broaden the range of scientific advice” they were looking at.
“Children only have one chance on education – if you really care about children you will want them to be in school.”
Source: BBC
