Dr Chandrakant Lahariya

School reopening in India: Children are at the lowest risk of developing severe COVID-19, vaccination of children is not prerequisite and parents can use a simple tool to assess the risk to other family members. Every which way, the benefits of schools opening are far greater than any minimal risk.

School Reopening: Schools have the responsibility to ensure safety, instil confidence in parents and the community and innovate to close learning gaps.

School reopening in India: Governments must show leadership, set up task forces, develop detailed standard operating procedures, bring stakeholders together, use science for decision making, and counter misconceptions.

There is sufficient evidence that vaccination of children is not a prerequisite that opening of schools does not pose additional risk to children or family members and the benefits outweigh any minimal risk. An urgent priority now has to be to develop a plan and roadmap to open schools safely.

Estimating a timeline of the decline of COVID-19 in India, medical experts told NDTV that India could hope to see a "curb in the spread of coronavirus in early 2021", but cautioned that "returning to the pre-Covid era will take a long time".

School reopening in India: Children are at the lowest risk of developing severe COVID-19, vaccination of children is not prerequisite and parents can use a simple tool to assess the risk to other family members. Every which way, the benefits of schools opening are far greater than any minimal risk.

School Reopening: Schools have the responsibility to ensure safety, instil confidence in parents and the community and innovate to close learning gaps.

School reopening in India: Governments must show leadership, set up task forces, develop detailed standard operating procedures, bring stakeholders together, use science for decision making, and counter misconceptions.

There is sufficient evidence that vaccination of children is not a prerequisite that opening of schools does not pose additional risk to children or family members and the benefits outweigh any minimal risk. An urgent priority now has to be to develop a plan and roadmap to open schools safely.

Estimating a timeline of the decline of COVID-19 in India, medical experts told NDTV that India could hope to see a "curb in the spread of coronavirus in early 2021", but cautioned that "returning to the pre-Covid era will take a long time".