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Can Children Catch and Pass on Coronavirus?
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Health Correspondent Laura Foster explains what we know currently about how children are affected by the virus.
How likely children are to catch and spread coronavirus is talked about a lot when it comes to deciding how and when to reopen schools.
The problem is that Covid-19 is a new disease and not something scientists have had long to study - meaning the available data on the subject that's currently available is sparse.
Here, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Health Correspondent Laura Foster explains what we do know currently about how children are affected by the virus.