Ministers have been warned 'to plan for all contingencies’ ahead of the new term.
Professor Neil Ferguson warned there is evidence than ‘older teenagers can transmit just as well as adults’
Professor Ferguson — who advised the Government to go ahead with lockdown but later broke it himself — added: ‘In terms of the reproduction value, the ‘R’ value, opening high schools could increase it by as much as a half by as little as 0.2 or 0.3, but it will go up. But asked whether the virus can be controlled in winter, he warned: ‘Things could get quite difficult.
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