A review of international public health guidance on Covid and the reopening schools has found general agreement that health screening measures, including temperature screening, should not be conducted.
Ireland's Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) looked at 96 guidance documents across 20 countries and two international health bodies, in relation to identifying and managing symptoms in children and young people attending school.
It appears from the study that the Irish approach to managing Covid-19 in schools is generally in keeping with approaches that have been adopted internationally.
The HIQA review found that in general the symptoms associated with Covid were consistent across guidance documents. It found agreement that