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of 25 different districts that have recently gone from voluntary masking to mask mandates, five districts of those, across the country actually had to shut down and go to virtual learning. as a result of hundreds of covid infections in schools. since the beginning of august, school districts that are not masking are starting to have the integrity to report their covid infection publicly. and we re seeing a tremendous amount of within school transmission. by the way, we ve contacted the israeli researchers and as outlined in their public list in august 2020, those were grades 7 through 12 with pcr testing over the jewish holiday weekend. and not much changed with ventilation similar to what we did in north carolina. this is a lot for parents to process, dr. meissner, let me ask you this, you write that children have been known to transmit covid, but far less
people can still carry transmit covid, and fuel new variants, quarantine should still be mandated. if you would like to let me know your thoughts on that point, if you think it is a good idea to allow people from the eu and the us into england, do get in touch with me on twitter. you can use the hashtag, and i will try to read out some more of your comments. in australia, it s been announced that the strictest covid measures will remain in place in sydney and the surrounding area for another four weeks. they were first imposed a month ago. our correspondent shaimaa khalil joins me now from sydney. good morning to you. so, tell us more under the plan for the extended quarantine and what the data is behind that. quarantine and what the data is behind that. ~ ., , , . behind that. well, it was expected that this was behind that. well, it was expected that this was going behind that. well, it was expected that this was going to behind that. well, it was expected that this was going