Closed schools “may fall behind COVID-19 cases across the UK”

An authoritative expert said that school closures due to summer vacation may be one of the reasons for the decline in coronavirus cases across the UK.

Dr. Mike Tildesley, a member of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Modeling Group (Spi-M) that advises ministers, said he is “cautiously optimistic” about reducing cases, but only time will Prove whether the third wave of Covid is “reversing”.

Infectious disease experts from the University of Warwick told BBC Radio 4’s Today program that “any case where there is a significant decline in cases is good news”.

But he added: “However, I think what we need to consider is that there have been changes recently, and I think the biggest change is that in many parts of the country, schools are now closed for summer.

“Now, of course, because of this, it means that… middle school students have undergone lateral mobility tests twice a week for a long period of time. We know that the current cases of young people are slightly higher, (and) because the school is now disbanded, So part of the reason for the decline in cases may be that we do not detect so many cases among young people.

“Before we really know whether we see everything is improving, the other thing we need to consider is the hospitalization and, of course, the death.”