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On March 18, 2020, the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, announced that the health advice for Australian parents was that all schools should stay open.
On March 21, 2020, the University of Florida Academic Health Center (UF Health) released a video giving advise on how to prevent the spread of COVID-19 among children and to present children spreading the disease to others in the community.
On February 4, 2020, Singapore’s Ministry for Education announced the measures that would be put in place to reduce the risk of COVID-19 spreading within Singaporean schools.
On March 27, 2020, the Singaporean Education Minister, Ong Ye Kung, explained why his country’s schools were remaining open.
On March 28, 2020, Singapore announced that all its schools would conduct home based learning for one day a week.
On April 3, 2020, the Singaporean prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, announced that all workplaces in Singapore and most schools would close in the following week.
On April 4, 2020, Medmastery televised a segment considering the nature of COVID-19 infection among children and whether schools should be closed. (Please note: it does not substantially consider the question of disease spread)
On March 19, 2020, The Australian televised an information video discussing the nature of COVID-19 when contracted by children and their capacity to spread the disease.
On March 13, 2020, St Louis Children’s Hospital released a video in which Dr. Hilary Babcock, an infectious disease specialist, discusses the symptoms of COVID-19 among children and how to control its spread.
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Should Australian schools remain open during the COVID-19 epidemic?
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On April 11, 2020, The Age published a report titled 'Parents to be trusted to do right thing if they send kids to school' indicating that the Victorian government is confident that those parents able to supervise their children's education at home will do so.
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On April 7, 2020, the Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, and the state's education minister, James Merlino, issued a media release explaining that most Victorian students were expected to learn from home during Term 2, 2020.
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On April 1, 2020, 7 News published a report titled 'Coronavirus can and does kill young people - and many have one thing in common' which presented a number of COVID-19 deaths among children.
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On March 28, 2020, Bloomberg published an article titled 'Should Schools Close to Fight Virus? These Places Say No' which looks at the justifications Singapore and Sweden offer for keeping schools open and the concerns of some of those who oppose the decision.
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On March 27, 2020, The Guardian presented an article titled '"More harm than good': the case for and against closing schools during the coronavirus pandemic' It presents the views of Professor Peter Collignon, an infectious diseases physician and microbiologist at Canberra Hospital, who is opposed to closing schools and those of Marylouise McLaws, epidemiologist and member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Health Emergencies Program Experts Advisory Panel for Infection Prevention and Control Preparedness, Readiness and Response to Covid-19, who believes schools should be closed.
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On March 24, 2020, the ABC published an article titled 'How does coronavirus affect kids, babies and pregnancies?' which largely presents the views of Peter Collignon, professor of infectious diseases at the Australian National University medical school on the question.
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On March 23, 2020, The Guardian published a report titled 'Can kids catch coronavirus? What we know about Covid-19 and children' which examined some of the evidence for claims that children suffer less severely from COVID-19, but which also looked at the inconclusive nature of current knowledge.
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On March 23, 2020, 7 News published a report titled 'Coronavirus Australia: Teachers 'afraid and angry' over decision to leave schools open' which outlines the concerns of teachers over the federal government's decision to leave Australian schools open.
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On March 22, 2020, news.com.au published a report titled 'Coronavirus: Prime Minister Scott Morrison announces schools to remain open, "should go to school tomorrow"' which gives the views of the prime minister and the federal medical officer as to why Australian schools should remain open.
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On March 21, 2020, The Guardian published a report titled '"'I feel expendable": Australian teachers sound alarm about schools and coronavirus' which detailed the opposition of many Australian teachers to the federal government's decision to keep schools open.
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On March 20, 2020, ABC News published a range of views on whether schools should close to help control the spread of the coronavirus. The piece, titled 'Schools are open during the coronavirus outbreak, but should I keep my kids at home?' was originally published in The Conversation.
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On March 19, 2020, The Canary published a report titled 'Coronavirus: Scientists warn young people not to be complacent as deaths rise' which details the growing number of young people who have been seriously affected by the COVID-19 outbreak.
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On March 19, 2020, The Sydney Morning Herald published a report titled 'Readers debate decision to keep schools open amid coronavirus outbreak' which presents a range of opinions on whether Australian schools should remain open during the COVID-19 outbreak.
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On March 18, 2020, Vox published a report titled 'The risk Covid-19 poses for children, explained' which examines some of the dangers the coronavirus poses for children.
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On March 18, 2020, The Australian published a background report titled 'A level playing field for schoolchildren?' which presents a range of views on the issue of whether schools should be closed to help control the coronavirus.
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On March 17, 2020, The New York Times published a report titled 'Children and Coronavirus: Research Finds Some Become Seriously Ill' which presents some of the evidence indicating children can become severely ill with COVID-19.
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On March 16, 2020, The Chronicle published a report titled 'Schools to implement new strict virus measures' which outlines some of the provisions put in place to prevent contagion while still keeping students at school.
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On March 16, 2020, The Guardian published an article titled 'Why Australia is not shutting schools to help control the spread of coronavirus' which explains the reasons originally given for keeping Australian schools open during the COVID-19 outbreak.
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On March 14, 2020, ABC news published a report titled 'Coronavirus may not spread as fast if schools kept open, NSW Education Department says' which gives the view of the New South wales Education Department as to why schools should remain open.
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On March 12, 2020, New Scientist published an analysis titled 'Why don't children seem to get very ill from the coronavirus?' which considered the evidence suggesting children are more mildly affected and considered some of the possible reasons for this.
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