Most of students are contaminated with the Covid from their parents, said Dr. G. Wijewardena, Director, Lady Ridgeway Children's Hospital, Colombo. Mr Wijesuriya says. He further expresses that it is around 90%.
He accentuates that parents should always follow proper health guidelines. The specialist clarified that the transmission of the Covid infection from one child to another was pretty much as low as 0.04%, because of the amount of virus produced in children is low.
The expert specialist accentuates that proper health guidelines should be followed when sending children to school and back to home.