Professor Shabir Madhi says children should go back to school. He also said it was inevitable that pupils would infect one another as the virus would be with us for at least the next two years. | Day46ofLockdown
Johannesburg - Professor Shabir Madhi, one of the medical experts on Health Minister Zweli Mkhize’s advisory committee, has called on pupils to be sent back to school sooner rather than later.
He was also critical, however, that the lockdown may have been instituted too early, with South Africa lacking the requisite testing capacity at the time. He said in the first two weeks of the lockdown, the country began to test fewer people than it did before instituting the lockdown, leading to fewer confirmed cases during the period in question.
In Italy, where there were in excess of 30 000 Covid-19 deaths, none of the deceased were children, he said. “Adults are more likely to be infecting adults, and adults of the same age group are more likely to and because obviously they are in the same social circles. “This virus is not going to go away,” he said. “There will be three to four waves before we have a vaccine, so we need to put a plan in place for the next two years,” he said.
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