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How schools can reopen safely during the pandemic

Masks, class sizes and hygiene are important, but low community spread is key.
  1. Smriti Mallapaty
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At schools across South Korea, children eat their lunches in silence, facing plastic screens that separate them from their friends1. They wear masks, except when practising social distancing in the playground. And their temperatures are checked twice every morning — first at home and again at the school gates.

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Nature 584, 503-504 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02403-4

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