Hundreds of thousands of children aged seven to 10 were deprived of life-saving skills during the pandemic, say Australian water safety experts.
A new campaign from Portugal aims to lift awareness that drowning is a silent killer.In Portugal, an innovative advertisement by the Portuguese Association for Child Safety uses a heavy metal band to show that drowning is silent. “If a heavy metal band can’t make itself heard inside a swimming pool, can a child do it?” it asks.Scarr expects this year’s national drowning toll to be even worse than in 2020-21 when it rose by 20 per cent to 294 fatal drownings.
“This year’s public education will focus on a generation of children who have missed swimming lessons; the hundreds of thousands of children seven, eight, nine and 10 years [old] who missed out on swimming lessons,” he said.
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