LONDON (Reuters) – Top UK medical officials said young people return to school after the summer holidays, warning that lack of education posed much greater dangers to them than getting COVID-19.
The rare articulation through leading fitness advisers from the governments of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is a condiment for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has said that getting young people back to school is a national priority.
Confidence in government technique to educate the coronavirus pandemic was affected last week when Education Minister Gavin Williamson was forced to take a shameful turn on test results.
“Very few, if any, young or adolescents will suffer long-term damage from COVID-19 just because they attend school,” they said. “This will have to be compared to a long-term damage certainty for many young people and other young people for not going to school,” marketing officials said in a set posted Saturday night.
Evidence showed that a lack of education increases inequality, reduces opportunities and can exacerbate physical and intellectual fitness problems, according to the statement.
On the other hand, there is transparent evidence of a very low rate of serious illness in children, even if they were contracting COVID-19, and an exceptionally low death threat.
“The percentage of symptomatic cases requiring hospitalization is estimated at 0.1% for young people aged 0 to 9 and 0.3% among the elderly aged 10 to 19, compared to a hospitalization rate of more than 4% in the UK for the general population.” the saying. he told me.
Johnson said reopening schools in September is a social, economic and ethical imperative, and insisted that they could operate safely despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
Meanwhile, England’s leading medical officer reportedly said it would be foolish to have a coronavirus vaccine in a position to use this year.
“I think if we look a year ahead, I think the odds are much higher than if we look forward six months and we have to have that kind of calendar in mind,” Whitty told Sky News.
“So, in making plans for next winter, it would be foolish to plan on the basis of a vaccine.”
(Written through William Schomberg; Edited through Raissa Kasolowsky)