How do children spread the coronavirus? 

The science still isn’t clear

Schools are beginning to reopen — but scientists are still trying to understand what the deal is with kids and COVID-19.

The role of children in spreading the coronavirus has been a key question since the early days of the pandemic. Now, as some countries allow schools to begin reopening after weeks in lockdown, scientists are racing to figure this out.

Children represent a small fraction of confirmed COVID-19 cases — less than 2% of reported infections in China, Italy and the United States have been in people under 18 years old.

But researchers are divided on whether children are less likely than adults to get infected and to spread the virus. Some say that a growing body of evidence suggests children are at lower risk. They are not responsible for the majority of transmission and the data support opening schools, says Alasdair Munro, a paediatric infectious-diseases researcher at University Hospital Southampton, UK.

INTERNATIONAL NURSE DAY

International Nurses Day celebrates the contribution that nurses make to societies around the world. The date has a very strong significance, being the birthday of perhaps the world’s most famous nurse, Florence Nightingale.

Nurses are involved in all stages of emergency management, including prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. Proper training and protection are needed to keep them safe and healthy. 

As COVID-19 continues to spread, nurses are some of the people that comprise our best defence to contain and mitigate this epidemic. They also face the highest risk of becoming infected themselves.

THANK THEIR EFFORT TO SAVE OUR LIVES BY KEEPING SOCIAL DISTANCING 

THE BEST WAY TO KEEP COVID19 CONTROLLED

SOCIAL DISTANCING SAVE LIVES

MAY DAY BASKETS

Back in the 19th and 20th centuries, people rang in the first of May with a particularly charming and elegant tradition. 

They would take flowers they had gathered at the end of April's showers, arrange them in pretty paper along with gifts and candies, and hang them on the doors of friends and neighbors as a way of welcoming them into warmer weather.

HAPPY WORLD BOOK DAY!

23 April is a symbolic date for world literature. It is on this date in 1616 that Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died. It is also the date of birth or death of other prominent authors, such as Maurice Druon, Haldor K.Laxness, Vladimir Nabokov, Josep Pla and Manuel Mejía Vallejo.

It was a natural choice for UNESCO's General Conference, held in Paris in 1995, to pay a world-wide tribute to books and authors on this date, encouraging everyone, and in particular young people, to discover the pleasure of reading and gain a renewed respect for the irreplaceable contributions of those, who have furthered the social and cultural progress of humanity. 

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

IDIOMS AND EXPRESSIONS

QUOTES ABOUT READING

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WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION SENDS A MESSAGE TO YOUNG PEOPLE