Dr. Ronan Glynn:

Professor Nolan may wish to come in on this issue. We have been pleasantly surprised by the profile of the disease over the past week but there is uncertainty around that because of the nature of the week in question. We will have to monitor the situation in the coming weeks. Although there are people who do not wish to hear it, our bigger concern about schools reopening is not so much the impact of what might happen in schools themselves on transmission and the R number but, specifically, that wider society will take it as a message that they can return to their workplaces and to other forms of mobility and social contact. We are asking parents, guardians and others across society to please continue to work from home because, in the context of what we want to do and are trying to do more broadly as a society and while I understand that many people would prefer to be in a workplace than to be at home, working from home is a really powerful thing that people can do to contribute to keeping this under control in the coming weeks. Professor Nolan may wish to come in on this issue.