Dr Paddy Mallon, from St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin and a Professor of Microbial Diseases at UCD, said "low community transmission means there is less chance of cases getting into schools in the first place".
Almost one million children and teenagers are due to return to around 4,000 primary and second level schools from today for the first time since the middle of March. Many schools are reopening this week, with the remainder next week. "There may even be the occasional outbreak in schools, because that's what we have seen from international experience.
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