Q&A: Why are experts split on Covid risks to schoolchildren?

New data from the Health Protection Surveillance Centre shows rising rates of summer infections slowed when schools reopened. File picture

Medical experts are split on the risks to children from the Delta variant of Covid-19, as thousands of pupils remain out of school. 

An infectious disease specialist expressed fears that most children under the age of 12 in Ireland will contract Covid-19 by early next year if more is not done to make schools safer.