Is It Safe To Send Children To School Now? Expert Responds

School Reopening News: Clarifying queries amid resuming schools in offline mode and sending children to schools, Dr NK Arora, in an interview with NDTV has said that the schools must be reopened in a phased manner and have urged the parents to send their children to schools.

Clarifying queries amid resuming schools in offline mode and sending children to schools, Dr NK Arora, in an interview with NDTV has said that the schools must be reopened in a phased manner and have urged the parents to send their children to schools, adding that they need not be worried about them. The expert, in the interview, said, the parents before considering sending their children to schools must ensure that the teaching and non-teaching staff in the schools are vaccinated against Covid and the adults in the family are immunised. “Send children to school if adults in the family and the staff at school are fully vaccinated,: says Dr NK Arora, Expert Panel Chief to NDTV. "Children sometimes become the vehicle of transmitting the virus, however, if a safe, virus-free environment is created, the spread of infection can be reduced," Dr Arora said.