Corona research short of case studies thanks to success in combatting virus
4 years, 7 months ago

Corona research short of case studies thanks to success in combatting virus

Dutch News  

One important corona study on domestic transmission within families may take longer to complete because of a lack of new subjects. But although primary schools opened partially on May 11, and more schools are due to open on June 2 and June 8, she said that the overall infection trend is declining and that fewer families have been coming forward in the past three weeks. ‘Closing the schools happened at a time where we were seeing exponential growth in the number of cases and the projections for ICU bed occupancy and hospitalisation numbers were concerning,’ she tells DutchNews.nl. ‘At that point there was already an idea amongst modellers and epidemiologists in the Netherlands that the contribution of children to the epidemic was rather small and that the closure of schools would not add much to other containment strategies.’ She added that primary schools appear to have successfully put in place measures to ensure a 1.5m distance between teachers and pupils, and to keep separate classes apart – something that will have to be ‘the new normal’ in education once it opens. Even when we go back to full school occupancy on June 8, those measures will be in place.’ She added that – unlike in the UK where there is some resistance to reopening schools – in the Netherlands, the risk is seen as ‘acceptable’.

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Schooling in Covid Era: An Opportunity for Young Students to Become Better Global Citizens
2 years, 6 months ago

Schooling in Covid Era: An Opportunity for Young Students to Become Better Global Citizens

News 18  

As Covid-19 case counts are rising again, there are apprehensions of a fresh wave building up. It is by now clearly evident that children are less likely to suffer from severe illness, even when infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Children who are immunocompromised or have risk enhancing comorbid health conditions must be protected from exposure and provided vaccines which are …

Mandate COVID Vaccination for Adults, Don’t Make School-going Children a Scapegoat
2 years, 8 months ago

Mandate COVID Vaccination for Adults, Don’t Make School-going Children a Scapegoat

News 18  

Schooling has been a matter of enthusiastic, and often passionate, debate since the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world. The second cause of worry is the assumption that with schools being open, children would infect each other and spread it to their teachers or carry it home and infect the adults, especially the grandparents who we do know have a higher …

What About Kids at Malls & Functions, Ask Experts as Rising Covid Cases Bring Back School Closure Demand
2 years, 8 months ago

What About Kids at Malls & Functions, Ask Experts as Rising Covid Cases Bring Back School Closure Demand

News 18  

With a rise in the number of school-going children catching coronavirus in India, especially in Delhi and neighbouring areas, the demand to shut schools and cancel exams is back. The virus spread irrespective of opening of schools,” believes Naman Jain, Education Expert and Director, Silverline Prestige School, Ghaziabad, who is currently running the school in accordance with strict Covid-19 protocol. …

Covid-19 cases rise again: How can you keep your children safe in schools, home
2 years, 8 months ago

Covid-19 cases rise again: How can you keep your children safe in schools, home

India Today  

Weeks after the Omicron cases subsided across India, coronavirus is once again on the rise. Parents and teachers can keep a few things in mind to keep children safe both at school and at home as new cases pop up. How to keep children safe from Covid-19 in schools, at home? Graphic: Pradeep Singh Saini Health experts have urged schools …

Coronavirus cases double in children, hospital admissions up by 15%
2 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus cases double in children, hospital admissions up by 15%

Dutch News  

Coronavirus infections more than doubled in school-age children as one person in 50 tested positive for the virus in the last week, according to the latest weekly bulletin by the RIVM. The official figure of 361,120 – a 51% increase since last week – is incomplete because an estimated 60,000 tests are still waiting to be analysed, the public health …

Coronavirus cases double in children, hospital admissions up by 15%
2 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus cases double in children, hospital admissions up by 15%

Dutch News  

Coronavirus infections more than doubled in school-age children as one person in 50 tested positive for the virus in the last week, according to the latest weekly bulletin by the RIVM. The official figure of 361,120 – a 51% increase since last week – is incomplete because an estimated 60,000 tests are still waiting to be analysed, the public health …

CDC endorses schools’ coronavirus ‘test-to-stay’ policies
3 years ago

CDC endorses schools’ coronavirus ‘test-to-stay’ policies

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — U.S. health officials are endorsing “test-to-stay” policies that allow close contacts of students infected with the coronavirus to remain in classrooms if they test negative. “Test-to-stay is an encouraging public health practice to help keep our children in school,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said on Friday. CDC’s official guidance for schools has been that when someone …

26 students test positive for Covid-19 at residential school in Odisha's Mayurbhanj
3 years, 1 month ago

26 students test positive for Covid-19 at residential school in Odisha's Mayurbhanj

India Today  

As many as 26 students of Chamakpur Tribal Residential Girls’ School in Thakurmunda in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district have tested positive for coronavirus, according to the district administration. The school premises is being sanitised twice daily after 26 students tested positive for coronavirus. Some of the students showed symptoms of cold and cough and reportedly fell ill on Thursday, following which …

Education union worried about high Covid infections in primary schools
3 years, 1 month ago

Education union worried about high Covid infections in primary schools

NL Times  

Education union AOb is very concerned about the high number of coronavirus infections in primary education. Figures requested from public health institute RIVM show that 21 percent of primary school staff contracted Covid-19 in the past 18 months - much higher than the about 13 percent average among Dutch adults aged 18 to 69, the union said, NOS reports. After …

Little support for coronavirus access passes in higher education
3 years, 2 months ago

Little support for coronavirus access passes in higher education

NL Times  

There is little support in higher education for the introduction of a coronavirus access pass for students. In a press conference on Tuesday, the Cabinet said that students might soon have to show a coronavirus access pass to get onto campus, should the number of coronavirus infections not decrease with the current measures. "Apart from the fact that it affects …

English school return spurred Covid in children, but cases fell in adults: Study
3 years, 2 months ago

English school return spurred Covid in children, but cases fell in adults: Study

Live Mint  

Covid-19 infections in children in England rose in September after schools returned from summer holidays, helping to keep cases high even as there was a fall among adults, a large prevalence study showed on Thursday. "Prevalence was high and increasing in school aged children during September," Paul Elliott, director of the study, told reporters, adding that increased vaccination uptake in …

Schools need to be reopened in a phased manner with multi-layered Covid mitigation steps: ICMR study
3 years, 3 months ago

Schools need to be reopened in a phased manner with multi-layered Covid mitigation steps: ICMR study

India TV News  

The schools need to be reopened in a phased manner, suggested the Indian Council of Medical Research in its latest study. In the opinion piece that has synthesized scientific evidence from within India and abroad on the justification for reopening of schools, experts said knowing that COVID-19 transmission is an "over-dispersed" phenomenon, testing strategies in schools could serve as key …

Primary schools no longer have to send entire class home after Covid infection
3 years, 3 months ago

Primary schools no longer have to send entire class home after Covid infection

NL Times  

If a child in primary education turns out to have the coronavirus, their whole class no longer has to go home from Monday. However the council, which represents primary schools in the Netherlands, emphasized that schools must receive proper guidance from the GGD in determining who should and should not go home after an infection in the classroom. Over the …

Back at school: The Hindu Editorial on student safety during the pandemic
3 years, 4 months ago

Back at school: The Hindu Editorial on student safety during the pandemic

The Hindu  

State governments have taken the difficult decision to reopen schools for some classes, encouraged by a consensus among public health experts that the benefits to students and society at large outweigh the risks of a COVID-19 surge. A week after many of them reopened, mainly at the secondary and higher secondary level, infections among teachers and students have not triggered …

Schools again a hotbed for coronavirus immediately after summer break
3 years, 4 months ago

Schools again a hotbed for coronavirus immediately after summer break

NL Times  

Now that schools are open again throughout the country, they have immediately become an active place for the coronavirus to spread. One in eight coronavirus infections last week, 12.5 percent, was contracted at an education or childcare facility. In The Hague and the surrounding area, 34 primary school classes were sent home in that first week, the local branch of …

Voorburg primary school closed due to Covid-19 infections
3 years, 4 months ago

Voorburg primary school closed due to Covid-19 infections

NL Times  

A primary school in Voorburg, Zuid-Holland, had to close its doors on Tuesday, in the second week of school this academic year, due to coronavirus infections. "There are so many infections at De Driemaster primary school that we had to send all classes home," school director Ewald van Vliet said to Omroep West. According to Van Vliet, at least ten …

Don't send home entire class after positive Covid test, experts say
3 years, 4 months ago

Don't send home entire class after positive Covid test, experts say

Dutch News  

Government health advisors are recommending that primary schools do not send home entire classes if one pupil tests positive for coronavirus, Trouw reported on Monday. However, Trouw says, the Outbreak Management Team which advises the government on dealing with the pandemic, is recommending that only pupils who have ‘close contact’ with the affected child be sent home. The current rule …

Don’t send school classes home over one coronavirus infection, says outbreak expert
3 years, 4 months ago

Don’t send school classes home over one coronavirus infection, says outbreak expert

NL Times  

The Outbreak Management Team advised the Ministry of Health to relax the coronavirus measures for primary education as of September 20. This new school year, the rule still applied that an entire classroom must stay home if one child tested positive for the coronavirus. The OMT stated that the Cabinet can responsibly announce around September 20 that from now on …

Higher education teachers concerned about coronavirus in their classrooms: Labor union
3 years, 4 months ago

Higher education teachers concerned about coronavirus in their classrooms: Labor union

NL Times  

Many teachers in higher vocational education, applied sciences universities and research universities still do not feel very safe in the workplace at this stage of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the AOb. The education sector labor union based the conclusion on its own survey of 2,500 people. That ranges from 92 percent at the advanced vocational programs to 97 percent …

Vaccinate teachers, children to keep schools safe from Covid-19: WHO
3 years, 4 months ago

Vaccinate teachers, children to keep schools safe from Covid-19: WHO

India TV News  

As millions of children return to school for the new academic session, vaccinating teachers and other school staff against Covid-19 disease can help make schools a safe place against the infectious disease, the World Health Organisation and Unicef said on Monday. Children aged 12 years and above who have underlying medical conditions that put them at greater risk of severe …

How one unvaccinated, unmasked teacher spread coronavirus to students and parents
3 years, 4 months ago

How one unvaccinated, unmasked teacher spread coronavirus to students and parents

LA Times  

Coronavirus particles emerge from the surface of cells cultured in the lab in this transmission electron microscope image. An unvaccinated, unmasked California elementary school teacher who came to school in May even while visibly sick infected a dozen students with the coronavirus, all too young to be immunized, according to a report published Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease …

What are the risks of kids getting COVID-19 as schools reopen?
3 years, 4 months ago

What are the risks of kids getting COVID-19 as schools reopen?

LA Times  

Julie Silk works with her kindergarten students in the classroom at Jackson STEM Dual Language Magnet Academy in Altadena. Among the nation’s three most populous states, the rate for new daily pediatric hospitalizations for COVID-19 per 100,000 children in Florida is 1.28; in Texas, it’s 0.53; and in California, it’s 0.21. The best way to keep children safe, in schools …

Safe at school: The Hindu Editorial on getting students back on campus
3 years, 4 months ago

Safe at school: The Hindu Editorial on getting students back on campus

The Hindu  

Almost every child got left behind for more than a year in India, as COVID-19 shuttered schools and forced pupils to study online at home, if they could. In several countries, leaders are exploring ways to reduce the risk of coronavirus infection among pupils who are not yet eligible for vaccination, while getting them back on campus. One study of …

Schools are Australia's new COVID battleground. How risky are they really?
3 years, 5 months ago

Schools are Australia's new COVID battleground. How risky are they really?

ABC  

Across Australia's east COVID-19's Delta variant is spreading, and the battle lines are being redrawn. "It's just the awful truth," says Catherine Bennett, Chair in Epidemiology at Deakin University's School of Health and Social Development in Melbourne. "If you were trying to design a way to improve transmission in the community, you would first say 'let's bring schools into the …

Schools reopening in India: ICMR chief suggests plans to reopen schools
3 years, 5 months ago

Schools reopening in India: ICMR chief suggests plans to reopen schools

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Once India starts reopening schools, it will be wise, to begin with, the primary section as children have a lower number of ace receptors to which virus attaches, making them much better at handling viral infections than adults, said ICMR Director General Balram Bhargava on Tuesday. Addressing a press conference, he said the Indian Council of Medical Research's …

Coronavirus lockdowns mean home learning is back, but experts say it comes at a cost
3 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus lockdowns mean home learning is back, but experts say it comes at a cost

ABC  

India Kerr's first years in high school have not gone as expected. "If the cases are the lowest they can be in the community … the risk of a case becoming apparent in a school will decline," Professor Macartney said. A study from Sweden, where in 2020 lower-secondary schools stayed open but upper-secondary schools closed, found leaving schools open had …

Coronavirus outbreaks at summer camps could be a preview of school-year problems
3 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus outbreaks at summer camps could be a preview of school-year problems

LA Times  

Kids attending a day cam in Tyler, Texas, get a soaking and a respite from the heat. You have people who say, ‘What is the big deal?’ You have people who say it is all a government plot.” Dr. William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt University infectious disease specialist, said he wasn’t surprised by the outbreaks as camps reopened this year after …

Concern post-exam holidays could drive up corona infections
3 years, 6 months ago

Concern post-exam holidays could drive up corona infections

Dutch News  

More than 200 Dutch teenagers have tested positive for coronavirus after coming back from post-exam celebrations in resorts such as Mallorca, the RIVM has confirmed. The public health agency is concerned that travel to other European countries could trigger a new wave of infections, as happened last year when a surge in cases in Spain and the south of France …

Dozens of A'dam high schoolers returned from Mallorca vacation with Covid
3 years, 6 months ago

Dozens of A'dam high schoolers returned from Mallorca vacation with Covid

NL Times  

Dozens of high school students in Amsterdam were infected with the coronavirus while on their final exam trips to Mallorca in Spain. Nationwide, over 200 teenagers between 15 and 19 tested positive for the coronavirus after their exam trips in Spain or Portugal, public health institute RIVM said on Tuesday. "We sent a letter to all secondary schools asking them …

No vaccines for young children, but schools can reopen safely in the fall, a study shows
3 years, 7 months ago

No vaccines for young children, but schools can reopen safely in the fall, a study shows

LA Times  

Students wear masks and sit at socially distanced desks at a school in Ramona, Calif. Over the course of 2,000 runs of their model elementary school with a relaxed approach to masking, social distancing and isolation, a single infected child was likely to spread the coronavirus to an average of 1.7 other children over 30 days, researchers found. With students …

Coronavirus has impacted on children worldwide, Dutch NGO says
3 years, 7 months ago

Coronavirus has impacted on children worldwide, Dutch NGO says

Dutch News  

The Netherlands has risen one place to fifth in the annual KidsRights index, drawn up by global NGO Kids Rights Foundation which monitors how children’s rights are being respected and improved. The coronavirus pandemic has had a ‘devastating impact’ on children worldwide, the Netherlands-based foundation says. ‘With the ongoing global pandemic, we had to address the devastating impacts and outcomes …

Most kids with coronavirus infections lack typical symptoms of COVID-19, study says
3 years, 7 months ago

Most kids with coronavirus infections lack typical symptoms of COVID-19, study says

LA Times  

Kindergarteners get their temperatures checked as they return to school in Riverside. A new study questions the value of this type of screening, since most kids with coronavirus infections don’t develop a fever. What’s more, nearly three-quarters of these infected children never had “any of the typical COVID-19 symptoms” — a fever, cough or shortness of breath — researchers wrote …

Parents increasingly unwilling to have their child tested for coronavirus
3 years, 8 months ago

Parents increasingly unwilling to have their child tested for coronavirus

NL Times  

The willingness of Dutch parents to have their child tested for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection is very limited, NOS reported based on research conducted by organization Ouders en Onderwijs, which translates to "Parents and Education". Some 25% of surveyed parents said they would opt for their children to go into a 10-day quarantine instead of getting tested for the virus …

Telangana Shuts Schools, Colleges from 24 March Amid COVID Surge
3 years, 9 months ago

Telangana Shuts Schools, Colleges from 24 March Amid COVID Surge

The Quint  

“A few cases have been registered here and there in educational institutions in our state. Even in our state, parents have expressed concerns, and have requested the government to temporarily shut schools,” Sabitha Indra Reddy said in the Assembly during the ongoing Budget Session. It was earlier reported that the Telangana government is mulling closure of schools after over 100 …

Rise in COVID-19 cases in schools worries Telangana government
3 years, 9 months ago

Rise in COVID-19 cases in schools worries Telangana government

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: With concerns being raised over growing Covid-19 cases across the country, the school education department says it is monitoring the situation closely with regard to opening of schools and following the safety protocol. Owing to the spike in cases in Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, among others, a senior education department official told Deccan Chronicle that they have directed district …

40% of primary schools sent classes home due to Covid
3 years, 10 months ago

40% of primary schools sent classes home due to Covid

NL Times  

Since primary schools were allowed to reopen last month, over 40 percent of them have had to send at least one class home due to coronavirus infections, according to a poll of 800 primary schools by the general association of school leaders AVS, NOS reports. If you see that only 35 to 40 percent of schools had to close while …

Three elementary schools temporarily close after coronavirus outbreaks
3 years, 10 months ago

Three elementary schools temporarily close after coronavirus outbreaks

NL Times  

Three elementary schools, in Amsterdam, Beemster and Panningen, closed after multiple students and staff members were infected with the coronavirus, the AD reports. Later on, four staff members and one intern tested positive causing over thirty families to go into quarantine, largely because an adult contracted the virus. The elementary school De Riet in Panningen had to close its doors …

All primary school teachers to be tested for Covid: report
3 years, 10 months ago

All primary school teachers to be tested for Covid: report

NL Times  

The cabinet wants to have all primary school teachers throughout the Netherlands tested for the coronavirus over the next three months, whether or not they have symptoms that could indicate an infection. This is one of multiple experiments meant to quickly identify infections so that schools don't have to close, insiders told RTL Nieuws. Primary schools have been open again …

Coronavirus rule relaxation is risky but responsible, Rutte says
3 years, 10 months ago

Coronavirus rule relaxation is risky but responsible, Rutte says

Dutch News  

As expected, prime minister Mark Rutte announced four changes to the current coronavirus regulations at Tuesday evening’s press conference, but said the curfew will be extended until the morning of March 15. Old lives ‘It will still be a while before we get our old lives back,’ health minister Hugo de Jonge said. ‘And we are now seeing the first …

CDC study: Teachers key to COVID-19 infections in 1 district
3 years, 10 months ago

CDC study: Teachers key to COVID-19 infections in 1 district

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — A new study finds that teachers may be more important drivers of COVID-19 transmission in schools than students. The paper released Monday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention studies nine COVID-19 transmission clusters in elementary schools in the Atlanta suburb of Marietta in December and January, That included one cluster where 16 teachers, students and …

Ministers warn that any change to coronavirus rules will be cautious
3 years, 10 months ago

Ministers warn that any change to coronavirus rules will be cautious

Dutch News  

Any changes in the current coronavirus measures will be confined to ‘small cautious steps’ even if a relaxation of the rules is an option, health minister Hugo de Jonge told reporters after Friday’s meeting with regional safety board chiefs. Ministers will meet at the prime minister’s official residence on Sunday to discuss the latest situation and will take to health …

Dr. Rochelle Walensky: CDC director says ‘we have work to do’ when it comes to reopening schools safely
3 years, 10 months ago

Dr. Rochelle Walensky: CDC director says ‘we have work to do’ when it comes to reopening schools safely

CNN  

CNN — The director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sunday emphasized the need for masking and other mitigation measures in order to reopen schools safely, saying “we have work to do” as teachers, students and parents continue to struggle with Covid-19’s impact on education. As that transmission comes down we’ll be able to relax some …

CDC: Strong evidence in-person schooling can be done safely
3 years, 10 months ago

CDC: Strong evidence in-person schooling can be done safely

Associated Press  

The nation’s top public health agency said Friday that in-person schooling can resume safely with masks, social distancing and other strategies, and vaccination of teachers, while important, is not a prerequisite for reopening. “We know that most clusters in the school setting have occurred when there are breaches in mask wearing,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC’s director, said in a …

Teachers not at higher risk of Covid than other groups: RIVM boss
3 years, 11 months ago

Teachers not at higher risk of Covid than other groups: RIVM boss

NL Times  

Primary schools and daycare centers can reopen safely, Jaap van Dissel of public health institute RIVM said in a briefing to parliament on Thursday. Teachers are not at higher risk of contracting the coronaviurs than other population groups, and kids up to the age of 12 really play a small role in spreading the virus, he said, ANP and NOS …

Younger adults are biggest spreaders of Covid-19, study suggests
3 years, 11 months ago

Younger adults are biggest spreaders of Covid-19, study suggests

CNN  

CNN — A new study suggests that the biggest spreaders of coronavirus in the US are adults aged 20 to 49, but that doesn’t mean they should be pushed to the head of the vaccine line, experts say. “Unlike pandemic flu, these adults accounted after school reopening in October, 2020 for an estimated 72.2% of SARS-CoV-2 infections in the US …

Coronavirus in the Netherlands: what you need to know (February 2)
3 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus in the Netherlands: what you need to know (February 2)

Dutch News  

No decision has yet been taken about whether the curfew in the Netherlands should be extended but the government has confirmed primary schools will reopen on February 8. If any pupil or teacher tests positive for coronavirus, the entire class must go into quarantine and take a test after five days. Shops Non food shops, which have been closed since …

The Latest: Study: Precautions help slow school virus spread
3 years, 11 months ago

The Latest: Study: Precautions help slow school virus spread

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Health officials say evidence continues to mount that it’s generally safe to have in-person schooling, if U.S. schools require mask wearing and other precautions. — Follow all of AP’s pandemic coverage at https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic, https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-vaccine and https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak ___ HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING: NEW YORK — New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Chokshi says the city is expecting …

In-person learning during the pandemic is possible with the right precautions, CDC researchers say
3 years, 11 months ago

In-person learning during the pandemic is possible with the right precautions, CDC researchers say

CNN  

CNN — Many parents and caregivers remain worried about the safety of their children in schools amid the coronavirus pandemic, but experts from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that with the right mitigation measures, there is a path to low-risk, in-person learning. “Committing today to policies that prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission in communities and in schools will …

Rapid coronavirus testing scheme ‘may increase rather than decrease’ cases in schools, experts warn
3 years, 11 months ago

Rapid coronavirus testing scheme ‘may increase rather than decrease’ cases in schools, experts warn

The Independent  

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Health experts 'very worried' about new virus strain, extra measures needed
3 years, 11 months ago

Health experts 'very worried' about new virus strain, extra measures needed

Dutch News  

Government health experts say they are extremely worried about the spread of the highly contagious form of coronavirus first identified in Britain, which they estimate is now responsible for roughly 10% of Dutch cases. But the OMT now estimates some 10% of Dutch cases could involve the B-117 strain and that this could rise to over 50% in February without …

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