Is it safe to send my child back to school?

Writer: Hedda Mittner.

The burning question that all parents want an answer to is: How safe is it to send my child back to school? The short answer is that there is no scientific evidence that keeping children at home will help to curb the spread of COVID-19.

Worldwide, relatively few children have been reported with COVID-19. According to RIVM, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands, which has been conducting extensive ongoing studies on the role of children in the spread of the Coronavirus, international research shows that the percentage of children among confirmed COVID-19 patients is low, ranging from 1% in young children to 6% in older children. Worldwide, very few children with COVID-19 have died and, so far, there are no COVID-19 fatalities among children under the age of 18 in South Africa.

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