ANALYSIS: Closed centres, anxious parents and infected kids: What's the plan for childcare during Omicron?
Childcare providers:
providers should do a risk assessment of their facility and draw up a COVID-safe plan to minimise riskstaggered drop-off and pick-up timesregular cleaning of surfaces, and particularly of objects infants and small children put in their mouths, may help reduce transmissionOne of the most important strategies to reduce transmission iswhere possible children should beUltimately though, we need a national approach to developing coherent and easy-to-follow guidelines for parents and childcare...
Thea van de Mortel is a professor and Nursing and Deputy Head in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Griffith University. This piece first appeared onSpace to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.
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