Tag: children
Brazil’s Yanomami people – at least 25 more young children displaying Covid-19 symptoms
“at least twenty-five (25) Yanomami children with the same symptoms and in a serious condition.” More...
Brazil’s Yanomami people – report that nine children have died with COVID-19 symptoms
The Brazilian agency that provides health care for the Indigenous has sent a team to the Yanomami people’s territory in the remote Amazon rainforest to investigate a report that nine children died with COVID-19 symptoms, officials said Thursday. More...
Israel: Young children are particularly susceptible to the new coronavirus variant
Israel has said it is confident that vaccines are effective against the UK strain of coronavirus, but dampened hopes of a swift reopening of schools as it warned that young children were particularly susceptible to the new variant. More...
UK to send children back to the coronavirus battlefront. Adults can wait at home until it’s safe.
“There could be a phased reopening of schools in England based on regional infection rates after a lifting of the national lockdown, MPs have been told. More...
An open letter for proper coronavirus safety measures in schools
“Schools are a Covid19 pandemic driver; there is a consensus on that in literature. More...
Cornwall: near 500% rise in cases of Covid-19 in children aged 0-4yrs over Xmas
A week on week comparison of the rates of infection per hundred thousand reveal that some of the largest increases in percentages in the week from December 24 (Christmas Eve) to December 31 (New Year’s Eve) are in children under four years old (increase of 485.7%), those aged 70 to 74 (367.2%) and 85 to 89 (433.3%). More...
Netherlands: More children testing positive for coronavirus
Despite a significant 24-percent fall in the number of new Dutch coronavirus infections reported on Tuesday, the total figures for Week 47 ending Tuesday morning were virtually flat compared to the previous week. More...
Children are more susceptible to coronavirus than first thought
Research by Leuven university (KU Leuven) and the Belgian health institute Sciensano has revealed that young children can catch coronavirus just like adults, but they hardly suffer from it. More...
School reopening may have higher impact on coronavirus transmission than previously thought
The Welsh government’s technical advisory group (TAG) has said there is new evidence that schools being open is associated with higher rates of Covid infection in the general population. More...