GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization’s European office is planning a meeting next week with the health ministers of its 53 member states to look into protecting schools from COVID-19, including alternating classes, regional director Hans Kluge said on Thursday. “To bring transmission down in schools, you need to bring transmission down in communities,” Catherine Smallwood, the WHO’s Senior Emergency Officer, told a briefing in Copenhagen. Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay and John Miller; Writing by Nick Macfie; editing by John Stonestreet