Study in schools : "Children act more as a brake on infection"
By Stefan Locke , Dresden -Updated on 07/13/2020-15:12

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Fourth-grade students sit in their seats in Dresden at the beginning of May. Picture: dpa


Saxony was the first federal state to start school again after the lockdown. A study shows that this did not create new corona hotspots. After the summer holidays, the mask requirement is also to be abolished.



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DThe spread of the corona virus in kindergartens, schools and families has apparently been overestimated. A study by the Medical Faculty of the Technical University of Dresden, for which more than 2,000 schoolchildren and teachers have been tested for antibodies since the reopening of schools in Saxony in the spring, did not provide any evidence that the virus spreads particularly quickly in schools, nor does it prove so that it is transmitted particularly often by children. "It is rather the opposite," said study director Reinhard Berner, director of the polyclinic for children and adolescent medicine at the Dresden University Hospital. “Children act more like a brake on the infection. Not every infection that reaches them is passed on. "






Stefan Locke

Correspondent for Saxony and Thuringia based in Dresden.


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