MAIL readers had lots to say about the news of a positive case of Coronavirus (COVID-19) at a Barrow school earlier this week. On Wednesday, health chiefs confirmed that a pupils at St Columba’s Catholic Primary School in Walney had tested positive for the virus.

Jan Hannah: Why do the have to go back to school in huge numbers? Remote learning is carried out in Canada, Australia, and other countries as a normal way of learning. I certainly would not be happy with the situation.

Dawn Robinson: Funny how this has all escalated after the summer when people have been going abroad. Stop travel, close the pubs, increase testing, better track and trace and get the numbers back down.

Joan Higgins: Close the schools and roll out home schooling like they do in the Australian outback. Surely the Government could provide laptops to kids that don’t have any. They seem to have billions of pounds to spend when they want. SAVE OUR YOUNG.

Lizzie Brown: It's happening in too many schools now. A tough one to decide. Kids need school but at what cost. Very hard decision to have to make.

Kelly McNamara: Hayley Rooney, didn’t realise the boy had tested positive. Does this mean you will have to cancel Manchester if William needs to self isolate at home for 10 days? What a total nightmare.

Kelly MB: A week-on, week-off rota would help senior schools to reduce class sizes and socially distance better - with only half of a given school's pupils attending at any one time. Reducing the class size from 30 to 15 would mean less pupils self-isolating if a case were discovered in their bubble. Just a thought.

Lizzie Brown: It's happening in too many schools now. A tough one to decide. Kids need school, of course - but at what cost? A very hard decision to have to make...

Hannah Louise Conway: The first of other cases...