The key test every student heading back to school this year should do
Parents are being encouraged to send their children for an eye test after many spent large portions of 2020 behind computer screens and glued to other digital devices. Online learning and home schooling became commonplace last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, leading a number of optometrists to reveal an increase in children with short-sightedness. 'When you are young, your eye gets feedback from your environment and keeps growing until the middle of childhood,' Melbourne based optometrist Sophie Koh said. 'Studies have shown that natural daylight for at least one to two hours a da...