4 hours agoO BSH recommends testing for COVID-19 in schools
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)The World Health Organisation (OBSH) called on Friday (July 2nd) to conduct tests for COVIDD-19 in schools in order to avoid further instruction. Tests, according to WHO, should be done even when no cases of new coronary infected are detected. The organisation called “harmful” the effects of distance learning. [...]
Tests, according to WHO, should be done even when no cases of new coronary infected are detected.
The organisation called “harmful” the effects of distance learning.
Previously, school tests were recommended only if several cases of coronary infection had been detected.
But WHO now believes that testing should be done even if students and educational staff do not have symptoms of illness.
The summer months provide governments with an opportunity to take a series of measures that will help reduce the levels of the infected and avoid closing schools”, said Hans Kloge, regional director of O BSH for Europe.
He added that closing schools “has a harmful effect on education, social and mental well-being of children and youth”.
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European region O The BSH covers 53 countries and territories, including some in Central Asia.
United Nations agencies have said that school closure should only be viewed as a last “scale in cases where the epidemiological situation cannot be controlled through other measures.
