Face masks in schools create a climate of fear and breach WHO advice, say medics
Many secondary schools and even some primaries are now requiring children to wear masks in class
A teacher, wearing a protective face mask
Face masks are being used in schools in a way that breaches the World Health Organisation guidelines, senior medics have warned.
The use of masks in classrooms has led to a climate of fear in schools, according to an open letter to the Prime Minister signed by a hundred academics, medics, paediatricians and clinical psychologists.
They have urged the Government to withdraw its advice on the use of face masks in school corridors as a matter of urgency , adding that masks should play no part in the life of healthy children .