Closing playgrounds and increasing spacing between students may be more effective, according to UCL researchers.
It found that other control measures such as isolation are more effective during a coronavirus outbreak.
"Yet the only study to examine school closures as a separate intervention warned that the impact was relatively marginal, given the reasonable assumptions that household and community contacts would rise as a consequence."The study also highlighted"economic costs and potential harms" of mass school closures, especially for the most disadvantaged children.
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