Good Morning Britain 's Dr Hilary Jones has returned from his summer break in France, arriving back ten days ago, and his staycation in the UK.
Hosts Adil Ray and Charlotte Hawkins were discussing the issue of schools reopening after the summer holidays amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Dr Hilary told Adil and Charlotte he thought it was paramount they do reopen because "education is important".
But he gave several measures that he believes schools and parents must adhere to in order to reduced the risk of transmission.
These are "bubbles" of students who do not mix with those outside of their bubble, staggered break times, no assemblies, hand washing, and encouragement for parents to take their children to school via walking or cycling, so groups of people are not sharing cars.
But he admitted this would be particularly difficult to implement with teenage students, who are more independent and will be keen to mingle with each other before and after lessons.
He also said it was high time a proper test and trace system was implemented in the country.
"I think it's really important that children go back to school, their education is important, their social interaction is important," he said.
"What needs to be done is we minimise contact as much as practically possible.
"So if you can walk to school, cycle to school, that's better than taking a bus or sharing a car.
"If you have staggered break times that's very good, if you have bubbles of year groups or class groups so you've got the same people mixing together, not the whole school mixing together.
"You don't need to have general assemblies, you can use hand washing, you can make sure you use every single hygiene measure to minimise the tranismission.
"In terms of children's vulnerability it's minimal, even in older children.
"I think the real risk is older children who don't socially distance well, teenagers don't, they will find it harder to not mingle in groups before school, after school, and they can transmit the virus as easily as adults can, whereas Primary School children can't."
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