Covid cases in kids 30 times higher than this time last year amid fears of ANOTHER lockdown

COVID cases in children are 30 times higher than this time last year as fears are stoked of another lockdown.

Infections are high as kids return to school in England and Wales, with Scotland already back for weeks.

It has sparked concern that by the end of the month the mixing of children will cause a spike in cases.

In the week running up to August 28, there were more than 300 Covid infections per 100,000 five to 15-year-olds.

During that same week last year the numbers were less than 10 per 100,000 in that age group.

Good Morning Britain's Dr Hillary said today the trend in cases "is gradually upwards".

But he added: "Unless there's 100,000 cases a day, we're not facing any further restrictions or lockdowns at the moment... however hospitalisations are increasing and we need to keep across that.

"As we see more cases in younger people we will see higher proportion of them becoming sick with Covid and long Covid."

It comes after we told how parents of 12 to 15-year-olds will get an official letter asking for consent to give their children a Covid jab.

Mums and dads will be contacted in the coming days, Whitehall insiders say.

It comes after the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation refused to give the green light to inoculating the age group.

It said the children were at such low risk from the virus that it was not worth it.

Ministers, however, hope the UK’s four chief medical officers will come back shortly in support of the wider benefits of the injections, such as lessening classroom disruption and reducing infections spreading through them to adults more at risk.

School bubbles were binned in July after more than one million pupils were kept home that month, but heads would reportedly like to revive the measure.