Teachers face no greater risk of catching Covid than other workers, study finds

TEACHERS face no greater risk of catching Covid than other workers, a study found.

They and their families are actually 50 per cent less likely to be hospitalised with the bug than the general population.

And the risk of severe disease was almost four times higher for front-line healthcare workers.

The risk was still lower when the Delta variant pushed up cases while schools were fully open, the University of Glasgow found.

The findings in the British Medical Journal come despite teachers’ threats to boycott schools, calls for pay rises and demands to skip jab queues.

Prof David McAllister said: “Teachers’ risk of hospitalisation with Covid was about average when compared to other working-age people.

“This is likely to be broadly reassuring for people involved in face-to-face teaching.”