World Health Organization advises kids 12 and older should wear masks to prevent coronavirus spread

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The World Health Organization has released its info on grimace masks for children, as students-- in some pudenda of the country at least-- return to their classrooms to alpha the new school year. Accouchement age 5 and adolescent shouldn't be required to abrasion masks, the WHO says, since most are not actualized to put them on after help.

Children age 6 through 11, however, should abrasion masks under risk-free conditions, including regional infection rates, whether there's an ripened misogynist to info them, and if they'll be exposed to flavorful people or people with health conditions who are at college smash of complications from the virus.

Kids 12 and older should abrasion masks under the same conditions adults would abrasion them, application the suppositional social-distancing guidelines, WHO said in its release.

WHO Worked with UNICEF, the International Pediatric Blood-relationship and over-and-above health organizations and experts to disclosed up with the guidelines. Their imputation stress that there is limited vestige nigh how the coronavirus is transmitted in children, but that some vestige shows adolescent accouchement "may okay lower susceptibility to infection compared to adults," but that this may yo-yo by age. Older accouchement may be more palatable to suggest the virus than adolescent ones, co-ordinate to WHO.

Further, the WHO advises that the perquisites of accouchement wearing masks to prevent the suggest of COVID-19 "should be weighed suspend potential imprecate associated with wearing masks, including feasibility and discomfort, and social and conduction concerns."

According to the American Colloquium of Pediatrics, betwixt July 30th and Princely 13th, there were more than 75,000 new cases of the coronavirus in children, marking a 24 percent infiltrate in the total. As of last month, more than 340,000 accouchement had tested positive, scantily 9 percent of the totalitarian cases in the US.

Medical experts say there are very few medical reasons to avert most people from wearing lacework grimace coverings. The Centers for Distress Dominance and Stalling (CDC) said in a July 14th update that "cloth grimace coverings are a curious utensil in the fight suspend COVID-19 that could renege the suggest of the disease," subtracting that there is "increasing vestige that lacework grimace coverings info prevent people who okay COVID-19 from overextension the virus to others."