Round 6 of the Schools Infection Survey (SIS), a study jointly led by Public Health England (PHE), the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the Office for National Statistics (ONS), was carried out in June 2021 across 141 primary and secondary schools within selected local authority areas in England.
Doctors have a poor understanding of long COVID in children, report says
The clinical definition of long COVID in children is at present very limited and poorly understood by doctors, according to a new report published today [21 July]. The report also found that symptoms typically associated with long COVID were having a significant physical and psychological impact on children s day-to-day lives. Long COVID is commonly used to describe signs and symptoms that continue or develop after acute COVID‑19.
The report, led by the University of Bristol, is the first step in a COVID-19 testing in schools study to obtain opinions and experiences of long COVID from different groups of people.
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Initial estimates of staff and pupils testing positive for coronavirus (COVID-19) from the COVID-19 Schools Infection Survey across a sample of schools, within selected local authority areas in England. This Schools Infection Survey (SIS) is jointly led by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Public Health England and the Office for National Statistics.
Students at exams.
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The Government is expected to announce next week that facemasks are no longer required in schools. The unions will kick up a fuss. They wanted to go slow on reopening schools earlier this year, citing fears of a rise in transmission, and last week demanded that masks remain mandatory until at least June 21, on the basis that “rates of Covid are still significant”.
The unions’ claims are unsupported by the data. Official figures suggest almost nine in 10 secondary schools in England had no coronavirus cases in the immediate period after they reopened, and the latest round of the Schools Infection Survey found that infections were