Covid-19 Is Creeping Into Europe’s Schools

 There’s a new front in Europe’s fight to contain the coronavirus pandemic: the classroom.

Parents across the continent sent their children back to school a month ago after officials insisted there was scant evidence the virus would spread among children in school. Now schools are reporting thousands of cases in some of Europe’s biggest coronavirus hot spots.

More than a third of the U.K.’s 1,700 coronavirus outbreaks, defined as at least two cases, in the four weeks through Sept. 27 occurred in educational settings. About 35% of the 1,070 outbreaks under investigation in France are in schools or universities. Spain, home to Europe’s biggest epidemic, reported Covid-19 cases in 4.5% of its schools as of Sept 24.

Länk WSJ