Keeping schools open could be costly lesson

Updated April 15 2020 - 1:48pm, first published March 21 2020 - 6:30am
Keeping schools open could be costly lesson
Keeping schools open could be costly lesson

PRIME Minister Scott Morrison has said he was following the advice of the government's health experts and young people were a low-risk group. Closing schools would put pressure on health workers to stay at home to look after children, and hurt the economy more broadly, he said.

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