As students return to schools in Victoria and New South Wales after months of lockdowns, many people may be worried about the risks to their kids – and transmission overall. The role that schools play in transmission of the virus that causes COVID-19 has been difficult to work out, but new evidence can finally answer […]
Experts push mask mandates for all school children
Face masks should be mandatory for all Victorian schoolchildren once they return to classrooms, scientific and medical experts say, citing international evidence that schools without universal mask wearing are 3½ times more likely to experience a COVID-19 outbreak. Scientific lobby group OzSage argues Australian schools should follow the example of some US cities, where children as young […]
Primary school mask mandate tough to enforce but will ‘reduce transmission’
A paediatric and epidemiological expert and the head of the teachers’ union have both warned that the state’s new mask mandate for year three to six students will be difficult to enforce, though it should help to reduce COVID-19 transmission in schools. Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton ruled on Friday that Victorian children in years […]
Experts push mask mandates for all schoolchildren
Face masks should be mandatory for all Victorian schoolchildren once they return to classrooms, scientific and medical experts say, citing international evidence that schools without universal mask wearing are 3½ times more likely to experience a COVID-19 outbreak. Scientific lobby group OzSage argues Australian schools should follow the example of some US cities, where children […]
Expert group releases COVID-safe plan for schools and kids
Another 1,377 new cases were recorded in Victoria today, as its capital achieved the inglorious honour of becoming the world’s most locked down city of the pandemic. There are signs of hope, though. Cases are stabilising in Melbourne’s northern and western hotspot suburbs, and there’s been a huge uptake of vaccines by teenagers preparing to […]
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OzSAGE comment on the NCIRS report “COVID-19 Delta variant in schools and early childhood education and care services in NSW, Australia: 16 June to 31 July 2021”.
OzSAGE welcomes the collection of detailed data on transmission in schools, presented in the NCIRS report “COVID-19 Delta variant in schools and early childhood education and care services in NSW, Australia: 16 June to 31 July 2021”. The report shows that transmission risk is five times higher for Delta than previous variants of SARS-COV-2, and […]
Working Group: Children and Schools
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