rise in school cases without such measures and experts have not recommended jabs for healthy 12 to 15 year olds. in england, there are over 30 times more children with covid compared with last year. in scotland, cases among the under 15s have trebled since school restarted in mid august. we can t say that the rise has been solely caused by schools returning. this graph shows cases in 2020 in green and this year in red. although cases were much lower at this point in 2020, they followed a similar pattern, rising before schools went back and then increasing more steeply later in september. martine croxall is at a school in stockton on tees. school here back obviously for the first day of the new term with all sorts of considerations that have been made to keep everybody safe. there is a testing centre,