SKY NEWS: Coronavirus: Why isn't the UK closing down schools like other countries?

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Dr Thomas House, an expert in mathematical statistics at the University of Manchester, echoed Mr Neal's concerns about the risks to grandparents.

"If the closure is not carefully managed then children may spend more time with, and thereby increase the infection risk of their grandparents, who appear to be more vulnerable to complications from coronavirus," he said.

Dr House said the decision to close schools was "difficult", adding: "On the one hand, it helps to contain the spread of infection, but on the other it creates wider problems in society, like missing out on education."

*Also quoted in the Mirror*