Do children transmit coronavirus to adults?

Authorities in Kosovo have warned that the return of students to schools will be done by respecting health experts' recommendations for protection from the spread of corruption, which causes COVID-19.

How do children spread the virus?

World Health Organization (OBSH) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control agree: Yes, people under the age of 18 can transmit the coronary as adults do. But, like O The European Centre also says they have recorded few cases of children infected with coronarys, and few cases of virus outbreaks in schools as well.

According to a report by the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, published on August 6, European Union countries and Great Britain, only 5 percent of the Coronavirus infected have been children. Most of them reportedly have had no symptoms and infections, in many cases, without difficulty.

But when children had symptoms of COVIID-19, they were less predisposed to observe and fatal cases are few.

When symptoms are, children distribute the virus in amounts similar to adults and can infect others in the same way that it does in adults. But it is unclear how children who do not symptoms of the disease can infect others”, the report says.

COVID-19 disease mainly spreads from the dots of a person when he speaks, coughs, or sneezes. The disease is also transmitted by contact with contaminated surfaces. Yes, exposure can occur within three feet [1 m] of others, due to frequent physical contact with people who may be infected with coronarys.

Coronervirus blast in schools

The explosion of coronary in schools is not an outstanding feature in the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention, this is because most children do not develop symptoms.

Even the transmission of the virus from one child to another child is small.

“Indices of cases identified at schools suggest that transmission of the virus from one child to another child in school environments is rare, and this transmission is not the main cause of infection of children with virus”, says the European Centre.

Unlike European countries, including Kosovo, which shut down all educational institutions on 12 March, Sweden and Iceland kept primary schools and pre-school institutions open all the time. But these two countries applied measures such as hand washing, physical distance, and if a child was sick, it was said that he should not go to school.

Although children throughout the pandemic went to school in these two countries, both Sweden and Iceland did not report large numbers of hospitalized children.

Dileming around pandemic

But it is Israel that has reported new eruptions of coronary in schools.

The World Health Organization says that children have experienced COVID-19, mainly mild symptoms.

“From reported data in O BSH, children and teenagers up to 18 years of age represent 1 out of 3 percent of infection cases, even though this age group represents 29 percent of the world's population”.

However, it is said that children who return to school have more contact, which increases their risk of infection.

The hygiene of my hands, the wearing of masks, and physical distance are recommendations of experts to prevent more of the coronary spread.

As for wearing masks in schools, WHO says this rule can be imposed only after the virus has been studied the risk of spreading. This organisation says it should be considered whether students can keep distance from each other at least a meter and other factors, such as the health condition of students and teachers, should be taken into account.

“Scans are recommended as preventing the spread of the virus in public areas, especially where distance cannot be maintained. This may also apply in schools, in some situations. The policy of wearing masks should be in line with the national line or with the advice local authorities give. The important thing is that if someone is not feeling well, they should stay at home”, O says BSH.

As the date for the new school year approaches, Kosovo has not yet decided how the new school year will begin. Currently, three scenarios have been presented: returning to school facilities; learning combined and learning from various platforms.