Mr Morgan said: “I’m getting so many people, teachers saying ‘my health matters, why am I being put into a situation where I’m almost guaranteed to get infected and then maybe take it back to my family?’
“You’ve got parents taking their kids out of school.
“I know that my daughter goes to a French school. All of them have locked down, they’ve sent all the kids home now.
“But most London schools remain open, many teachers won’t be there so what quality of teaching will people be getting anyway?”
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The ITV host added: “What is the logic behind saying we don’t want people gathering in large numbers but still having a situation where twice a day hundreds of parents and nannies all congregate with many kids who will probably be carrying this without much of a problem, but may then be affecting the adults?”
Mr Khan responded: “This was raised many times, without breaching confidences, at COBRA yesterday.
“The advice is that it makes very little clinical difference in relation to closing schools.
“But that advice may change in relation to what we do know. Some teachers may be pregnant or others may have underlying health issues.”
The Mayor added: “If they have to close the schools tomorrow, which they might the way things are moving, it’s moving so fast.
“Most other countries have now shut down schools.
“I saw a piece in one of the papers today.
“We’re almost the only country now in Europe which is keeping schools open.”
The Government’s chief scientific advisor, Patrick Vallance, confirmed that “at some point” it may be necessary to think about school closures.
